Sunday, January 13, 2008

Wikipedia: Social alienation

Wikipedia (English): Social alienation
In a broader philosophical context, especially in existentialism and phenomenology, alienation describes the inadequacy of human being or mind in relation to the world. The human mind, as the subject of perception, relates to the world as an object of its perception, and so is distanced from the world rather than living within it. This line of thought can be found, among others, in Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Theodor Adorno.

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