Introduction Chapter 1: Time-Consciousness, Personal Identity, and Loneliness
Chapter 2: Consciousness Versus Language: Wittgenstein and Russell
Chapter 3: Loneliness and the Possibility of a “Private Language”
Chapter 4: Organic Communities, Atomistic Societies, and Loneliness
Chapter 5: Ethical Responsibility, Spontaneity, and the Problem of Evil
Chapter 6: Ethical Principles, Criteria, and the Meaning of Human Values
Chapter 7: Loneliness and Political Narcissism
Ben Lazare Mijuskovic was associate professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA, prior to retirement. He is also a licensed clinical therapist and has worked for many years with the San Diego and Los Angeles Departments of Mental Health.
Ben Lazare Mijuskovic has spent 40 years researching theories of consciousness in relation to human loneliness, using an interdisciplinary and "history of ideas" approach. In this book, Mijuskovic combines Kant's theory of reflexive self-consciousness with Husserl's transcendent principle of intentionality to describe the distinctive philosophical, psychological, and sociological roots of loneliness and intimacy. He argues that loneliness is innate, unavoidable, and constituted by the structure of self-consciousness itself.
Ben Lazare Mijuskovic was associate professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA, prior to retirement. He is also a licensed clinical therapist and has worked for many years with the San Diego and Los Angeles Departments of Mental Health.