Books

Praise and Publicity for Consciousness and Loneliness: Theoria and Praxis

Book Reviews

Dr. Benjamin Mijuskovic’s recently published work Consciousness and Loneliness: Theoria and Praxis has been getting some much needed attention at the start of this new decade.

Much appreciation to Joshua Marcus Cragle from the University of Amsterdam for his fantastic review in Journal of Thought Fall/Winter 2019 edition vol. 53: 3 & 4.

Michael D. Bobo wrote a review in Philosophy in Review 40 (1):31-33 (2020) to promote Dr. Mijuskovic’s life work and exploration in the nature of human consciousness and its social, psychological and therapeutic effects .

There will be more reviews pending this year. Stay tuned.

Public Speaking Events

Dr. Mijuskovic spoke at Tampere University in December 2019 focusing on “Loneliness and the Built Environment.”

He will be visiting a Conference in April 2020 hosted by the University of Szczecin and York St. John University titled “Solitude in the Community: Alone Together Again“

Brill Release 2018

Mijuskovic Consciousness and Loneliness Cover Image

Consciousness and Loneliness: Theoria and Praxis

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 327, 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.
Publication Date: 
26 November 2018
ISBN: 
978-90-04-38597-9

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Loneliness Kindle Edition

Dr. Mijuskovic’s second edition of Loneliness is now available on Kindle at an amazing price of only $3.99. This is a must have for students of philosophy of mind, consciousness studies, 20th century literature and psychology.

See the review by Kerrin A. Jacobs , Review of Loneliness on Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, and Benedetta Romano’s Review of Feeling Lonesome for more information about this work that masterfully weaves a tapestry of philosophical, psychological and literary aspects of the fundamental human condition.

Loneliness 2nd Edition is now available

Dr. Mijuskovic’s interdisciplinary work Loneliness is now available in a second edition. You can find it on  Alibris, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Parker E. Lichtenstein provides a helpful synopsis in The Psychological Record:

  “The author has employed an interdisciplinary approach to the problem of loneliness. While psychologists have touched upon the problem, they have not done justice to it. Mijuskovic sees loneliness not simply as a frequent human condition but rather an aspect of man’s ontological being. In his words, man is ‘intrinsically alone and irredeemably lost’ and is ‘continually struggling to escape the solipsistic prison of his frightening solitude.’ This basic thesis is supported through philosophical analysis and wide-ranging examination of relevant literature…. [T]he author has presented a challenging picture of much human behavior as a flight from loneliness. On the whole this is an intriguing book which should be of particular interest to psychologists of a humanistic persuasion.”