Alienation / Rahel Jaeggi ; translated by Frederick Neuhouser and Alan E. Smith ; edited by Frederick Neuhouser.

Author/creator Jaeggi, Rahel
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Descriptionxxv, 274 pages ; 24 cm.
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Uniform titleEntfremdung. English
SeriesNew directions in critical theory
Contents Foreword / Axel Honneth -- Translator's introduction / Frederick Neuhouser -- Preface and acknowledgments -- The relation of relationlessness : reconstructing a concept of social philosophy -- "A stranger in the world that he himself has made" : the concept and phenomenon of alienation -- Marx and Heidegger : two versions of alienation critique -- The structure and problems of alienation critique -- Having oneself at one's command : reconstructing the concept of alienation -- Living one's life as an alien life : four cases -- Seinesgleichen geschieht or "the like of it now happens" : the feeling of powerlessness and the independent existence of one's own actions -- "A pale, incomplete, strange, artificial man" : social roles and the loss of authenticity -- "She but not herself" : self-alienation as internal division -- "As if through a wall of glass" : indifference and self-alienation -- Alienation as a disturbed appropriation of self and world -- "Like a structure of cotton candy" : being oneself as self-appropriation -- "Living one's own life" : self-determination, self-realization, and authenticity -- Conclusion: the sociality of the self, the sociality of freedom -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-259) and index.
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LCCN 2013044698
ISBN9780231151986 (cloth : alk. paper)

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