Escaping Alienation A Philosophy of Alienation and Dealienation

by Morris, Warren Frederick

• ISBN13: 9780761822202
• ISBN10: 0761822208
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-19
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Escaping Alienation is a work of philosophical anthropology providing a theory of alienation and its opposite, dealienation. What it means to be human is answered from diverse perspectives provided by naturalism, pragmatism, existentialism, psychoanalysis and social psychology.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction
Purpose, Structure and Method	xi
Tribute to Hegel	xv
Beyond Myth and Metaphor	xvi
Preliminary Orientation	xviii
Phenomena of Alienation	xxii
Freedom	xxvi
Negativity - Foundation of Alienation
Ontological Principle of Negativity	1	(4)
What or Who is the Other?	5	(9)
The Being of Thought	14	(3)
Thinking the Universal	17	(3)
The Thought of Being	20	(6)
The Truth of Being	26	(2)
Alienation	28	(7)
Alienation - Impetus for Self Development
Nature of the Self	35	(5)
Narcissism and Self development	40	(2)
Narcissistic Selfhood	42	(4)
Egoistic Selfhood	46	(2)
Social Selfhood	48	(5)
The Alienated Self	53	(1)
Natural Self seeking	54	(2)
Roots of Evil	56	(9)
Alienating Work
Self-objectifying Work	65	(4)
Social Dominance and Submission	69	(3)
Alienating Self-objectification	72	(5)
Alienating Collective Work	77	(4)
Self-objectification requires Socialization	81	(4)
Freudian Repression versus Hegelian Sublation	85	(5)
Alienation and Identification	90	(9)
Social Roles and Alienation	99	(4)
Freedom
Freedom and Rationality	103	(11)
Freedom and Necessity	114	(5)
Normative Freedom	119	(8)
Critique of Personal Freedom	127	(3)
Freedom and Authority	130	(6)
Escaping Freedom	136	(5)
Social Implications of Rational Freedom	141	(8)
Religious Dealienation
Religious Alienation	149	(4)
Authoritarian Evil	153	(4)
Atonement	157	(4)
Escaping Finitude	161	(6)
Alienating Religion	167	(6)
God as Other of Self	173	(10)
God as Self	183	(10)
Cultural Alienation
Derivation of Culture	193	(4)
Defective Socialization	197	(5)
Subordinating Self to Culture	202	(7)
Subordinating Culture to Self	209	(5)
Identification with Cultural Authority	214	(7)
Totalitarian Culture	221	(7)
Cultural Dealienation	228	(5)
Dealienation
Defining Dealienation	233	(3)
Overcoming Alienation	236	(8)
Authoritarian Dealienation	244	(8)
Conscience Guiding Freedom	252	(5)
Hegelian Critique of Conscience	257	(4)
Dealienating Love	261	(4)
Character and Virtue	265	(3)
Prescription for Dealienation	268	(7)
Argument Recapitulation
Negativity	275	(4)
Self-Development	279	(7)
Socialization	286	(6)
Freedom	292	(9)
Religion	301	(7)
Culture	308	(7)
Dealienation	315	(8)
Glossary	323	(18)
Bibliography	341	(2)
Index	343