We would like to appreciate Olivia Sagan for incorporating three works by Dr. Ben Mijuskovic in her article “Organized Loneliness and Its Discontents” recently published in the first edition of Diversity & Inclusion Research. In this thematic survey of loneliness research, Sagan recognizes a central argument of Mijuskovic in the context of philosophical giants Aristotle, Merleau-Ponty, and Heidegger.

Justice cannot begin to be done to this canon here, but readers are pointed to Ben Lazare Mijuskovic, . . . whose assertion that we are all, a priori, ‘necessarily, universally, and innately lonely’ (Mijuskovic, 2005, p. 23) is explored in detail through a psychological, philosophical and literary lens.

https://doi.org/10.1002/dvr2.12008