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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mijuskovic, Ben Lazare, author.

Series:

Value Inquiry Book Series 327.

Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; volume 327

Cognitive science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loneliness--Philosophy.

Loneliness.

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (517 pages).

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, 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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-38597-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004385979 DOI