Consciousness and Loneliness: Theoria and PRAXIS

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37564-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 327, 508 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Cognitive Science

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mijuskovic, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1

1 Introduction to the Simplicity Argument and its Relation to Previous Studies

2 The Simplicity Argument: Meanings, Relations, and Space

3 The Simplicity Argument and the Freedom of Consciousness

4 The Simplicity Argument and Immanent Time-Consciousness

5 The Simplicity Argument and the Quality of Consciousness

6 Neuromania and Neo-Phrenology versus Consciousness

Part 2

7 The Simplicity Argument versus a Materialist Theory of Mind

Part 3

8 The Bicameral Mind, the Abyss, and Underworlds

9 Loneliness: In Harm’s Way

10 Metaphysical Dualism, Subjective Idealism, and Existentialism

By Way of an Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ben Mijuskovic, Ph.D (University of California, San Diego), is a tenured Associate Professor, and teaches at California State University. He is a licensed Clinical Therapist and author of 4 books and 60 articles.