Rahel Jaeggi is professor of social and political philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her research focuses on ethics, social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophical anthropology, social ontology, and critical theory.
Foreword, by Axel Honneth
Translator's Introduction, by Frederick Neuhouser
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part 1. The Relation of Relationlessness: Reconstructing a Concept of
Social Philosophy
1. "A Stranger in the World That He Himself Has Made": The Concept and
Phenomenon of Alienation
2. Marx and Heidegger: Two Versions of Alienation Critique
3. The Structure and Problems of Alienation Critique
4. Having Oneself at One's Command: Reconstructing the Concept of
Alienation
Part 2. Living One's Life as an Alien Life: Four Cases
5. Seinesgleichen Geschieht or "The Like of It Now Happens": The Feeling of
Powerlessness and the Independent Existence of One's Own Actions
6. "A Pale, Incomplete, Strange, Artificial Man": Social Roles and the Loss
of Authenticity
7. "She but Not Herself": Self-Alienation as Internal Division
8. "As If Through a Wall of Glass": Indifference and Self-Alienation
Part 3. Alienation as a Disturbed Appropriation of Self and World
9. "Like a Structure of Cotton Candy": Being Oneself as Self-Appropriation
10. "Living One's Own Life": Self-Determination, Self-Realization, and
Authenticity
Conclusion: The Sociality of the Self, the Sociality of Freedom
Notes
Works Cited
Index
