Alienation and reification

Joachim Israel

pp. 41-57

in: Felix Geyer, David Schweitzer (eds), Theories of alienation, Berlin, Springer, 1976

Abstract

"The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstractions can be made only in imagination. They are the real individuals, their activities and their material conditions of life, including those which they find already in existence and those produced by their activity'.¹