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Alienation

aliénation

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani starts from the Latin etymology alius, "the other": to alienate is to pass on to another what belongs to oneself. He locates the first definition of the concept in Rousseau's Emile: the one who "puts his whole being into what is foreign to him." He illustrates it with the satrap, with the king who is nothing without his crown, and with Harpagon without his cash box, and he points out that Marx takes up this definition12. In Rousseau, alienating part of one's natural freedom is also the sacrificial share that citizenship demands3. He traces how Feuerbach took the concept over from Hegel: man places his own attributes in God and judges himself wretched. According to him, however, Feuerbach replaces this alienation with another one, nature45. He also defines alienation as taking an object for a subject. As examples he gives the animism of the child who hits the "naughty" table, ancient anthropomorphism, and the "it" in "it is raining"67.

  1. 1Dominique Pagani "Sur Marx"6 Oct 2018 · 45:06
  2. 2L'essence du mal - Innocence de la nature, horreur du naturalisme !17 Dec 2024 · 33:39
  3. 3A comme Antigone15 Dec 2014 · 8:47
  4. 4Marx Plage 1/21 Feb 2016 · 39:14
  5. 5Marx Plage 1/21 Feb 2016 · 44:42
  6. 6Clouscard et le problème de Socrate14 Oct 2022 · 1:48:40
  7. 7Ibn Battûta19 Feb 2020 · 41:01

Summary produced automatically from 26 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Series · 1 Feb 2016Marx on the Beach 1/2
  1. 39:14Concept taken up from Hegel by Feuerbach: alius, the other; man attributes to an all-powerful being what makes his own greatness and strips himself of it.
  2. 44:42Feuerbach replaces religious alienation with a new alienation: nature; "nature is the opium of the people."

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