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Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society
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Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society

by Bertell Ollman. 334 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Bertell Ollman

Publisher:

   University Press

Place of Publication:

  Cambridge  

Publication Year:

  1971
Subjects:   Communism And Society, Alienation (Social Psychology), Marx, Karl,--1818-1883
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Note on translations page vii
General introduction ix
PART I PHILOSOPHICAL INTRODUCTION
1 With words that appear like bats 3
2 Social relations as subject matter 12
3 The philosophy of internal relations 27
4 Is there a Marxian ethic? 43
5 Dialectic as outlook 52
6 Dialectic as inquiry and exposition 62
Summary 70
PART II MARX'S CONCEPTION OF HUMAN NATURE
7 Powers and needs 75
8 Natural man 79
9 Species man 84
10 Relating man to objects: orientation, perception 87
11 Appropriation 91
12 Nature as evidence 96
13 Activity, work, creativity 99
14 Man's social nature 106
15 The character of the species 111
16 Freedom as essence 116
17 Man, classes, people 121
Summary 127
PART III THE THEORY OF ALIENATION
18 The theory of alienation 131
19 Man's relation to his productive activity 137
20 Man's relation to his product 142
21 Man's relation to his fellow men 148
22 Man's relation to his species 151
23 The capitalist's alienation page 154
24 The division of labor and private property 158
25 The labor theory of value: labor-power 168
26 Value as alienated labor 176
27 The metamorphosis of value 190
28 The fetishism of commodities 198
29 Class as a value Relation 205
30 State as a value Relation 215
31 Religion as a value Relation 222
PART IV CONCLUSION
32 A critical evaluation 231
Appendix 249
Notes to the text 255
Bibliography of works cited 309
Index of names and ideas 315
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