Selbstentfremdung

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German

Etymology

selbst +‎ Entfremdung

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzɛlpstɛntfʁɛmdʊŋ/

Noun

Selbstentfremdung f (genitive Selbstentfremdung, plural Selbstentfremdungen)

  1. self-alienation, self-estrangement
    • 1845, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, “IV. KAPITEL [Chapter IV]”, in Richard Dixon, transl., The Holy Family, translation of Die heilige Familie (in German):
      Die besitzende Klasse und die Klasse des Proletariats stellen dieselbe menschliche Selbstentfremdung dar. Aber die erste Klasse fühlt sich in dieser Selbstentfremdung wohl und bestätigt, weiß die Entfremdung als ihre eigne Macht und besitzt in ihr den Schein einer menschlichen Existenz; die zweite fühlt sich in der Entfremdung vernichtet, erblickt in ihr ihre Ohnmacht und die Wirklichkeit einer unmenschlichen Existenz.
      The propertied class and the class of the proletariat present the same human self-estrangement. But the former class feels at ease and strengthened in this self-estrangement, it recognizes estrangement as its own power and has in it the semblance of a human existence. The class of the proletariat feels annihilated in estrangement; it sees in it its own powerlessness and the reality of an inhuman existence.

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