The book gives a concise insight into the lonely mechanisms of the modern world, which will only become more diverse and difficult in the future, just think of the growing potential for crisis and catastrophe, gradually dissolving social roles and identities, rampant conspiracy ideologies and the growing influence of artificial intelligence and robotics. Only if modern man learns again and again to endure the growing loneliness can modernization progress. The book makes suggestions on how to succeed in preventing modernity from breaking down because of its loneliness. The Author Dr. Denis Newiak is a media, film and television scholar and teaches media and communication theory at various universities; he received his doctorate from the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg. New product