Metaphysical Dualism, Subjective Idealism, and Existential Loneliness: Matter and Mind

Author(s) : Ben Lazare Mijuskovic

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Metaphysical Dualism, Subjective Idealism, and Existential Loneliness: Matter and Mind

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  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : November 2021
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 328
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 95866
  • ISBN 13 : 9780367741273
  • ISBN 10 : 9780367741
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Since the ages of the Old Testament, the Homeric myths, the tragedies of Sophocles and the ensuing theological speculations of the Christian millennium, the theme of loneliness has dominated and haunted the Western world. In this wide-ranging book, philosopher Ben Lazare Mijuskovic returns us to our rich philosophical past on the nature of consciousness, lived experience, and the pining for a meaningful existence that contemporary social science has displaced in its tendency toward material reduction.

Engaging key metaphysical discussions on causality, space, time, subjectivity, the mind body-problem, personal identity, freedom, religion, and transcendence in ancient, scholastic, modern, and contemporary philosophy, he highlights the phenomenology of loneliness that lies at the very core of being human. In challenging psychoanalytic and neuroscientific paradigms, Mijuskovic argues that isolative existence and self-consciousness is not so much of a problem of unconscious conflict or the need for psychopharmacology as it is the loss of a sense of personal intimacy.

The issue of the criteria of "personal identity" in relation to loneliness has long engaged and consumed the interest of theologians, ethicists, philosophers, novelists and psychologists. This book will be of great interests to academics and students of the humanities, and all those with an interest in the philosophy of loneliness.

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About the Author(s)

Ben Lazare Mijuskovic, PhD (Philosophy), MA (Literature), is a retired professor of philosophy and humanities at California State University at Dominguez Hills, Humanities Department. He is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and is a retired Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health therapist.

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