Abstract:The first systematic account of alienation was in
The Phenomenology of Spirit
of Georg W. F. Hegel, where the terms
Entäusserung
(self‐externalization) and
Entfremdung
(estrangement) were adopted to denote Spirit's becoming other than itself in the realm of objectivity. Alienation still featured prominently in the writings of the Hegelian Left, and Ludwig Feuerbach's theory of religious alienation in
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