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Alienation and Self-Alienation
Alienation and Self-Alienation
Abstract Submissions Closed
Thursday, 25 February 2021: 14:15-15:45
Location:
RC36 Alienation Theory and Research (host committee)
Language: Spanish, French and English
Session Type: Oral
Understanding self-alienation is, as the core of alienated life, also the hardest form to access and confront because it requires understanding oneself as author and collaborator, the other forms of alienation and their connection with self-alienation, and the role of socialization and social domination in generating one’s own self-alienation and that of society generally. As the source of empowerment which forms a threat to the social order that must be repressed and occluded from early life, restoring self-connection is also the link to reframing the prior disempowerment which needs to be engaged to address further personal and collective healing. In this panel, we will consider the societal genesis and modalities of self-alienation in their nature and relation, its existential dimensions and distorting impact on lived experience, the means of its overcoming, the forms of empowerment that would emerge, and the social prospects regarding what lies beyond.
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