Alienation as a Critical Concept

Marx talks of alienation in connection with a number of areas of life — religion, politics, social and economic relations — but particularly labour. I shall focus on the area of labour in this Chapter. 1 In this area, at least, he clearly uses the concept of alienation in a critical manner. But what sort of criticism does it involve? These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.