Alienation and social criticism

Alienation is a pervasive problem in our society. In one form or another, most people struggle with it. Most discussions of the concept, whether in the Marxian tradition, or critical of it, are quite abstract. But alienation is a very complex phenomenon that takes significantly different forms in di...

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Weitere Verfasser: Schmitt, Richard (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Atlantic Highlands, NJ Humanities Press 1994
Schriftenreihe:Key concepts in critical theory
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Zusammenfassung:Alienation is a pervasive problem in our society. In one form or another, most people struggle with it. Most discussions of the concept, whether in the Marxian tradition, or critical of it, are quite abstract. But alienation is a very complex phenomenon that takes significantly different forms in different concrete settings
Individuals trying to understand their alienation and to think about how to overcome it are ill served by such abstract discussions because the connection to their particular specific experience is often difficult to draw
This volume breaks with this tradition and considers the experience of alienation of persons in different situations. What emerges is a complex picture of different experiences, different problems, and different questions about alienation that require much further thought and study. The essays in this volume take alienation seriously as a real experience of real persons: They are written by women and men, with color and without, heterosexual as well as lesbian, young and old
Beschreibung:X, 277 S.
ISBN:0391037978
0-391-03797-8