This book deepens and challenges discourses in current continental philosophy relating to the experience of alienation and the conditions for communal life.

Jennifer Gaffney is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College.

Introduction: The Philosophical Problem of Loneliness / 1. Being-with and Being Lonely: Heidegger on the They-Self / 2. Plurality, Singularity, Relationality: Reclaiming Community in the Modern World / 3. Political Loneliness: Arendt on the Hiddenness of Neoliberal Subjects / 4. Organized Loneliness: Another Origin of Totalitarianism / 5. Totalitarianism Then and Now: The Birth of Neoliberalism / 6. Political Loneliness Today: America's Hidden Trump Supporter / Conclusion: From Political Loneliness to a Politics of Appearance / Bibliography / Index