...This chapter discusses alienation's theoretical starting points and how they are addressed in Karl Marx's theory and in Martin Heidegger's existential ontology. In order to reconstruct the concept of alienation, this chapter explores the key differences between the two positions—which can be traced...

...This chapter offers suggestions for reconstructing the concept of alienation based on the argument that alienation critique today cannot—but also need not—be grounded in strongly essentialist or metaphysical presuppositions, nor rely on perfectionist or paternalistic arguments. It contends...

...This chapter explores one aspect of self-alienation: the phenomenon of one's own actions taking on an independent existence and the resultant feeling of powerlessness. It argues that, when our life falls into a dynamic of its own, we are just as alienated from ourselves as when our own actions...

...This chapter examines behavior in social roles as a form of inauthenticity and under what conditions being immersed in certain social relations manifests itself as self-alienation. More specifically, it considers the extent to which certain forms of role behavior represent cases of self-alienation...

...This book has outlined a reconstruction of the concept of alienation to show that it is only by relating appropriatively to the social practices that determine our lives and not by abstractly negating them that an unalienated relation to self is possible. If, as the book has argued, the self...

... and international balance of forces. Its decision to leave was strongly influenced by the lack of support from the Lebanese, particularly those in West Beirut, at the outset of the war. Pre-war Lebanese alienation from the P.L.O. had grown to a considerable degree in the years preceding the war, although Lebanese...

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... in the sense that, while inscribing itself within the tetralogy of power, it manages to break with a certain tendency in Sokurov to portray madness and alienation. While the film avoids any kind of glorification or vilification of its subject, Sokurov pays homage to Hirohito by showing him as more fallible...

...This book reconceives alienation as the absence of a meaningful relationship to oneself and others, something that manifests itself in feelings of helplessness and the despondent acceptance of ossified social roles and expectations. It draws on the Hegelian philosophical tradition, phenomenological...

...This chapter describes the problems associating domain with the concept of alienation, with particular emphasis on the various dimensions of the concept and how alienation reveals itself both in everyday language and in the philosophical treatment of the concept. Alienation means indifference...

...This chapter examines cases of internal division, in which our own impulses, desires, and actions appear alien to us and where we therefore appear to ourselves as dominated by an alien power. The discussion begins with an example to elaborate the phenomenon of self-alienation as internal division...

...This chapter focuses on indifference as a kind of self-alienation and loss of self. Someone who is indifferent with respect to his/her (own) projects and plans, who cannot identify with anything, so the argument goes, is not only alienated from the world but also from himself/herself, since he/she...

... given to ourselves. Unlike the poststructuralist critique of the subject, however, it insists on the possibility of distinguishing between successful and unsuccessful ways of appropriating ourselves. Only in this way can one speak of self-alienation while avoiding the trap of essentialism. The chapter...

...This chapter deals with the set of problems surrounding the concept of alienation. Against the backdrop of the negative foil of self-alienation, it examines the relations between freedom, self-determination, and self-realization and critiques the romantic conception of authenticity using a model...

...This chapter examines the structure of the concept of alienation as well as the problems associated with its critique. Three important points are discussed. First, alienation is tied to the problem of a loss of meaning; an alienated life is one that has become impoverished or meaningless...

...This chapter reconstructs Karl Marx’s concepts of alienation and commodity fetishism, and puts Marx’s writings to work in understanding the historical specificity of the capitalist articulations of economics and politics. In this chapter, the so-called epistemological break between the humanist...

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..., content, style, and themes of his filmmaking. Through this city, Linklater applied the techniques associated with representations of alienation in post-war European cinema to a specifically regional concept of American cinema that was also informed by existentialist and Marxist undercurrents. Consequently...