Marx's theory of alienation /
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Author / Creator: | Mészáros, István, 1930- author. |
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Edition: | Fifth edition, with new preface. |
Imprint: | London : Merlin Press, 2005. |
Description: | 356 pages ; 22 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13125973 |
ISBN: | 0850365546 9780850365542 |
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Notes: | Previous edition: 1975. Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-350) and index. |
Summary: | "The alienation of humankind, in the fundamental sense of the term, means the loss of control: its embodiment in an alien force which confronts the individuals as a hostile and potentially destructive power. When Marx analysed alienation in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, he indicated four principal aspects of it - the alienation of human beings from: (1) nature ; (2) their own productive activity ; (3) their 'species being', as members of the human species; and (4) each other. He forcefully underlined that all this is not some 'fatality of nature' - as indeed as the structural antagonisms of capital are characteristically misrepresented, so as to leave them in their place - but a form of self-alienation. In other words, not the deed of an all-powerful outside agency, natural or metaphysical, but the outcome of a determinate type of historical development which can be positively altered by a conscious intervention in the historical process, in order to 'transcend labour's self-alienation'."--Preface. |
Other form: | Online version: Mészáros, István, 1930- Marx's theory of alienation. 5th ed. London : Merlin, 2005 |
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