Revija za sociologiju, Vol. 1 No. 1, 1971.
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CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTS OF ALIENATION
Dimitrije Sergejev
Sažetak
In the contemporary concepts of the world, alienation is starting to become a more and more interesting topic, equally so to the science, art, philosophy, politics and theology. Some authors claim the alienation to be the synonym for the state of mind the contemporary man.
A strong interest in the problems of alienation as expressed by the recent ideas is accompanied by the emergence of a great variety of interpretations of this concept. Dean Dwight assessed thirteen possible correlates of alienation. It is not unusual, as in the new considerations of alienation many influences from the near and far tradition are present, as well as the results of the new original research and thinking. Besides, as the problem of alienation is not interesting exclusively to the philosophy, from various fields new solutions and different concepts are coming. All this makes modern discussion on alienation not only more complex, but more interesting at the same time.
Starting from the fact that alienation is many-faceted phenomenon, the sociologist tried to assess its main qualifications. These efforts resulted in the well known systematization of the meanings of alienation given by D. Dwight, M. Seeman, J. P. Clark and others.
Contemporary sociology gives other solutions too. Especially promising is the recognition of the general characteristic of the modern concept of alienation revealed through the comparison with the traditional concept of alienation as a whole, The traditional theory is dominated by the concept of alienation which gets the meaning in the context of the global society and the history as a whole. Alienation is meaningful primarily on the macro-level and concerns the human existence in totality. At the same time, mainly the positive aspects of alienation are stressed by the traditional approach.
Contrary to such a conception of alienation, the modern analyses start predominantly from the micro-level approach, i.e. point oyt the individual and psychological aspects. Simultaneously, alienation acquires mostly pejorative meanings, representing deprivation, loss, disconnection, estrangement and so on. Even the interpretations of some significant traditional theories on alienation have quite another, contemporary significance in modern analyses. (Hegel’s concept of alienation as a lack of power.)
In relation to the traditional one, the contemporary concept of alienation emerges as an unique thesis, stressing mainly negative and predominantly psychological aspects of the phenomenon of alienation.
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156646
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Datum izdavanja:
31.3.1971.
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