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The text traces alienation across creative activity, labour, and the relation between individuals and society, showing how social forms can turn products of human activity into hostile forces. It also analyzes freedom, private property, communism, and the division of labour, ending with an appendix on the “uplifting influence” of work and industry.","Marx and Alienation  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAlso by Sean Sayers  \nPLATO’S REPUBLICAn Introduction  \nMARXISM AND HUMAN NATURE  \nSOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY (edited with David McLellan) SOCIALISM, FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY (edited with Peter Osborne)  \nA Radical Philosophy Reader  \nSOCIALISM AND MORALITY (edited with David McLellan)  \nREALITY AND REASON  \nDialectic and the Theory of Knowledge  \nHEGEL, MARX AND DIALECTIC (with Richard Norman) A Debate  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nMarx and Alienation  \nEssays on Hegelian Themes  \nSean Sayers  \nUniversity of Kent, Canterbury, UK  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n© Sean Sayers 2011  \nAll rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS.  \nAny person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.  \nThe author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nFirst published 2011 by  \nPALGRAVE MACMILLAN  \nPalgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.  \nPalgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world.  \nPalgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries  \nISBN 978-0-230-27654-3 hardback  \nThis book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sayers, Sean.  \nMarx and alienation : essays on Hegelian themes / Sean Sayers.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.  \nISBN 978–0–230–27654–3 (alk. paper)  \n1. Marx, Karl, 1818–1883. 2. Alienation (Philosophy) 3. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770–1831. I. Title.  \nB3305 . M74S315 2011  \n193–dc22 2011012467  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \n20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11  \nPrinted and bound in Great Britain by  \nCPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor Esmé and Neve  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nAcknowledgements  \nA Note on the Term ‘Alienation’  \nIntroduction  \n1 The Concept of Alienation: Hegelian Themes in Modern Social Thought  \n2 Creative Activity and Alienation in Hegel and Marx  \n3 The Concept of Labour  \n4 The Individual and Society  \n5 Freedom and the ‘Realm of Necessity’  \n6 Alienation as a Critical Concept  \n7 Private Property and Communism  \n8 The Division of Labour and Its Overcoming  \n9 Marx’s Concept of Communism  \nAppendix: The ‘Uplifting Influence’ of Work and Industry  \nBibliography  \nIndex  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAcknowledgements  \nI am grateful to the publishers of the following works for permission to reuse copyright material from them as the basis for the chapters indicated.  \n‘Creative Activity and Alienation in Hegel and Marx’, Historical Materialism, 2003, 11, 1, 107–28 (Chapter 2) .  \n‘Labour in Modern Industrial Society’, in A. Chitty and M. McIvor (eds) Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 143–58 (Chapter 3) .  \n‘I","cbCaiub8QYO6NKGF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiub8QYO6NKGF","pdf",1844991,1,229,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## A Note on the Term ‘Alienation’\n## Introduction\n## The Concept of Alienation: Hegelian Themes in Modern Social Thought\n## Creative Activity and Alienation in Hegel and Marx\n## The Concept of Labour\n## The Individual and Society\n## Freedom and the ‘Realm of Necessity’\n## Alienation as a Critical Concept\n## Private Property and Communism\n## The Division of Labour and Its Overcoming\n## Marx’s Concept of Communism\n## Appendix: The ‘Uplifting Influence’ of Work and Industry\n## Bibliography\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What does the book mean by “alienation”?\",\"answer\":\"It treats “alienation” as a key translation of Marx’s terms Entfremdung and Entäußerung, referring to estrangement and the way products of labour become independent and hostile forces. 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