Alienation: The Human Dilemma
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1977
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Haverford College. Department of Political Science
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The concept of alienation is at the heart of many critiques of western industrial society. But there are many different conceptions of alienation. This essay attempts to draw upon various writers in order to propose a conception that will clarify a specific critique of society. The social critics that are the primary focus of this essay are Erich Fromm (The Sane Society, 1955), Herbert Marcuse (One-Dimensional Man, 1964, Eros and Civilization, 1955, and Reason and Revolution, 1941), and Karl Marx (Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844). I will integrate their conceptions of alienation with the conception of man proposed by Abraham Maslow in Motivation and Personality.