I
Ethics, Philosophy, Theology
II
Society, Politics, Economics, Law, Education, Media
Ger:
Entfremdung
Fr:
aliénation
SN:
Technical term following K. Marx; characterises the social process of the break-up of the natural, harmonic relation of humans among themselves, individually to themselves, to their environment, or to their work and resulting products (based on Meyers Phil.); use also for the feeling of separation and alienation from other creatures or for the assimilation of nature and its transformation into culture