On Hegel's theory of alienation and its historic force

pp. 50-100

in: Alan B. Brinkley, James K. Feibleman, Mitchell Franklin, Paul G. Morrison, Andrew J. Reck, Robert C. Whittemore, Edward Ballard, Studies in Hegel, Berlin, Springer, 1969

Abstract

Contemporary alienation theory begins with Hegel, although the history of modern conceptions of estrangement begins before Hegel with the struggle of the mechanical materialism of the French Enlightenment against feudal alienation.¹ Nevertheless, alienation and estrangement theory has been directed against Hegel, although from two opposed outlooks, which reflect the philosophical rivalry between materialism and idealism.