Alienation And Freedom / Edition 1

by Richard Schmitt

Overview

This book provides detailed descriptions of how lives are narrowed by alienation. It also provides some alternative views on alienation. The book shows that the deformation of personality, characteristic of alienation, takes many different forms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813328539
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	08/21/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Richard Schmitt is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Brown University. He now teaches at Assumption, Becker and Worcester State Colleges as an adjunct. Born in Germany, of Jewish parentage, he arrived in the United States in 1946. Best known for his introductory texts to Heidegger and to Marx and Engels, he has written widely about existentialism and political philosophy. Alienation--a topic at the intersection of Existentialism and Political Philosophy--has been a lifelong concern of his.

Table of Contents

Preface — Alienation and Freedom — The History of the Concept of Alienation — Alienation and the Human Condition — The Social Roots of Alienation — Alienation Limits Freedom