Consciousness and loneliness : : theoria and praxis / / by Ben Mijuskovic.

• VerfasserIn: Mijuskovic, Ben Lazare,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 327.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (517 pages).

Current research claims loneliness is passively caused by external conditions: environmental, cultural, situational, and even chemical imbalances in the brain and hence avoidable. In this book, the author argues that loneliness is actively constituted by acts of reflexive self-consciousness (Kant) and transcendent intentionality (Husserl) and is, therefore, unavoidable. This work employs a historical, conceptual, and interdisciplinary approach (philosophy, psychology, literature, sociology, et cetera) criticizing both psychoanalysis and neuroscience. The book pits materialism, mechanism, determinism, empiricism, phenomenalism, behaviorism, and the neurosciences against dualism, both subjective and objective idealism, rationalism, freedom, phenomenology, and existentialism. It offers a dynamic of loneliness, whose spontaneous subconscious sources undercuts the unconscious of Freud and the “computerism” of the neurosciences by challenging their claims to be predictive sciences.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Dedication / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- By Way of a Prologue / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Part 1 / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Introduction to the Simplicity Argument and its Relation to Previous Studies / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- The Simplicity Argument: Meanings, Relations, and Space / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- The Simplicity Argument and the Freedom of Consciousness / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- The Simplicity Argument and Immanent Time-Consciousness / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- The Simplicity Argument and the Quality of Consciousness / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Neuromania and Neo-Phrenology versus Consciousness / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Part 2 / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- The Simplicity Argument versus a Materialist Theory of Mind / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Part 3 / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- The Bicameral Mind, the Abyss, and Underworlds / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Loneliness: In Harm’s Way / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Metaphysical Dualism, Subjective Idealism, and Existentialism / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- By Way of an Epilogue / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Back Matter -- Bibliography / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Name Index / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Subject Index / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic.