Alienation

Abstract

“Alienation” was one of the buzzwords of the 1960s, coming into fashion with the “counterculture” and the neo‐Marxist philosophy that was loosely associated with it. It became so overused that it suffered the subsequent fate of most intellectual fads, fading from popular discourse as the Zeitgeist moved on while also largely losing its brief and limited appeal in the scholarly community. It is arguable, however, that it deserved neither fate, and that it may turn out to have an intellectually respectable future, along any of several lines picking up on strands of its many uses.

Sojourner alienation: an exploratory study of foreign student alienation

“…However. Georg William Friedrich Hegel was "the first to use the term systematically in anything like the special ways in which it is used today" (Schacht, 1970). According to Schacht (1970),…”