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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mijuskovic, Ben Lazare, author.

Series:

Value inquiry book series. Cognitive science ; v. 327.

Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; volume 327. Cognitive science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loneliness--Philosophy.

Loneliness.

Consciousness.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xii, 505 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019]

Summary:

"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, etc.) 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction to the simplicity argument and its relation to previous studies

The simplicity argument : meanings, relations, and space

The simplicity argument and the freedom of consciousness

The simplicity argument and immanent time-consciousness

The simplicity argument and the quality of consciousness

Neuromania and neo-phrenology versus consciousness

The simplicity argument versus a materialist theory of mind

The bicameral mind, the abyss, and underworlds

Loneliness: in harm's way

Metaphysical dualism, subjective idealism, and existentialism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Mijuskovic, Ben Lazare, author. Consciousness and loneliness

ISBN:

9789004375642

9004375643

OCLC:

1057237925