Preface | p. ix |
Introduction: Purpose, Structure and Method | p. xi |
Tribute to Hegel | p. xv |
Beyond Myth and Metaphor | p. xvi |
Preliminary Orientation | p. xviii |
Phenomena of Alienation | p. xxii |
Freedom | p. xxvi |
Negativity - Foundation of Alienation | |
Ontological Principle of Negativity | p. 1 |
What or Who is the Other? | p. 5 |
The Being of Thought | p. 14 |
Thinking the Universal | p. 17 |
The Thought of Being | p. 20 |
The Truth of Being | p. 26 |
Alienation | p. 28 |
Alienation - Impetus for Self-Development | |
Nature of the Self | p. 35 |
Narcissism and Self-development | p. 40 |
Narcissistic Selfhood | p. 42 |
Egoistic Selfhood | p. 46 |
Social Selfhood | p. 48 |
The Alienated Self | p. 53 |
Natural Self-seeking | p. 54 |
Roots of Evil | p. 56 |
Alienating Work | |
Self-objectifying Work | p. 65 |
Social Dominance and Submission | p. 69 |
Alienating Self-objectification | p. 72 |
Alienating Collective Work | p. 77 |
Self-objectification requires Socialization | p. 81 |
Freudian Repression versus Hegelian Sublation | p. 85 |
Alienation and Identification | p. 90 |
Social Roles and Alienation | p. 99 |
Freedom | |
Freedom and Rationality | p. 103 |
Freedom and Necessity | p. 114 |
Normative Freedom | p. 119 |
Critique of Personal Freedom | p. 127 |
Freedom and Authority | p. 130 |
Escaping Freedom | p. 136 |
Social Implications of Rational Freedom | p. 141 |
Religious Dealienation | |
Religious Alienation | p. 149 |
Authoritarian Evil | p. 153 |
Atonement | p. 157 |
Escaping Finitude | p. 161 |
Alienating Religion | p. 167 |
God as Other of Self | p. 173 |
God as Self | p. 183 |
Cultural Alienation | |
Derivation of Culture | p. 193 |
Defective Socialization | p. 197 |
Subordinating Self to Culture | p. 202 |
Subordinating Culture to Self | p. 209 |
Identification with Cultural Authority | p. 214 |
Totalitarian Culture | p. 221 |
Cultural Dealienation | p. 228 |
Dealienation | |
Defining Dealienation | p. 233 |
Overcoming Alienation | p. 236 |
Authoritarian Dealienation | p. 244 |
Conscience Guiding Freedom | p. 252 |
Hegelian Critique of Conscience | p. 257 |
Dealienating Love | p. 261 |
Character and Virtue | p. 265 |
Prescription for Dealienation | p. 268 |
Argument Recapitulation | |
Negativity | p. 275 |
Self-Development | p. 279 |
Socialization | p. 286 |
Freedom | p. 292 |
Religion | p. 301 |
Culture | p. 308 |
Dealienation | p. 315 |
Glossary | p. 323 |
Bibliography | p. 341 |
Index | p. 343 |
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