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Write short note: Alienation.

  • UPSC 2000, 1989, 1987
  • Sociological Thinkers

Alienation (Entfremdung) is the condition in which human beings are estranged from their own creative powers, so that what they make confronts them as an external force that rules them. Karl Marx worked out the idea in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844). He turned G. W. F. Hegel's alienation of spirit and Ludwig Feuerbach's…

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