Christoph Henning

Theories of Alienation

From Rousseau to the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

Henning brings theories of alienation back to better account for contemporary social pathologies. Theories of Alienation: From Rousseau to the Present shines important new light on this important field of contemporary social philosophy and is very approachable to the general reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781032761312
• ISBN-10: 1032761318
• Artikelnr.: 70150616

Autorenporträt

Christoph Henning is Chair for Philosophy and Humanism at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and an associated fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany. He has published widely on social, political and economic philosophy, on Marxism, and the history of critical theory.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Speaking of Alienation
2. Being Outside Oneself as a State of Emergency: Alienation in the Works
of Rousseau
3. Schiller, Humboldt, Fichte: Art and Education as a Counterweight to
alienation
4. Hegel: Reversing and Intensifying Alienation Inside the System
5. In God We Trust, or Religion and Money: Ludwig Feuerbach and Moses Hess
6. Karl Marx: Autonomous Development and Radical Practice
7. Critiques of Alienation Critique: Simmel, Plessner and Gehlen
8. Sociological Theories of Alienation: From Weberian Marxism to Empiricism
9. A False Reversal or an Amplification of Alienation? Recent Debates in
'New' Critical Theory
10. Between Nostalgia and Freedom: On the Future of Alienation Critique
Literature