CONTENTS

Foreword Axel Honneth

Translator’s Introduction Frederick Neuhouser

Preface and Acknowledgments

PART 1. THE RELATION OF RELATIONLESSNESS: RECONSTRUCTING A CONCEPT OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY

1. “A Stranger in the World That He Himself Has Made”: The Concept and Phenomenon of Alienation

2. Marx and Heidegger: Two Versions of Alienation Critique

3. The Structure and Problems of Alienation Critique

4. Having Oneself at One’s Command: Reconstructing the Concept of Alienation

PART 2. LIVING ONE’S LIFE AS AN ALIEN LIFE: FOUR CASES

5. Seinesgleichen Geschieht or “The Like of It Now Happens”: The Feeling of Powerlessness and the Independent Existence of One’s Own Actions

6. “A Pale, Incomplete, Strange, Artificial Man”: Social Roles and the Loss of Authenticity

7. “She but Not Herself”: Self-Alienation as Internal Division

8. “As If Through a Wall of Glass”: Indifference and Self-Alienation

PART 3. ALIENATION AS A DISTURBED APPROPRIATION OF SELF AND WORLD

9. “Like a Structure of Cotton Candy”: Being Oneself as Self-Appropriation

10. “Living One’s Own Life”: Self-Determination, Self-Realization, and Authenticity

Conclusion: The Sociality of the Self, the Sociality of Freedom

Notes

Works Cited

Index