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| Alienation: The concept of alienation was first developed by G.W.F. Hegel, who argued that alienation is a product of modern society. Hegel believed that the division of labor and the rise of capitalism had led to a situation in which individuals were no longer in control of their own lives. - Alienation in art refers to the technique of changing familiar elements in order to create new perspectives. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Hannah Arendt on Alienation - Dictionary of Arguments
Brocker I 356 Alienation/Arendt: According to Arendt, the origin of world alienation in thought lies at the beginning of modernism. >Modernism. The Frenchman René Descartes had philosophically carried out this break by terminating a traditional agreement according to which the human is part of the cosmos and not his ruler. >R. Descartes. Descartes, from a position of universal doubt, has classified the world as a product of the imagining mind. In so doing, he had broken with the relationship between the human and the environment: the "world" had from then on been regarded as an object of human activity. >Doubt, >Skepticism, >World, >World/Thinking. Antonia Grunenberg, „Hannah Arendt, Vita Activa oder Vom tätigen Leben“ in: Manfred Brocker (Hg.) Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. 2018_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Arendt I H. Arendt Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics. Civil Disobedience. On Violence. Thoughts on Politics and Revolution Boston 1972 Brocker I Manfred Brocker Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert Frankfurt/M. 2018 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19