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From Alienation to Reification:A Logical Transformation of Marx’sCritique of Modern Social Relations(PDF)

《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]

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2016年06期
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Research Field:
马克思主义与当代世界
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Title:
From Alienation to Reification:A Logical Transformation of Marx’sCritique of Modern Social Relations
Author(s):
ZHENG Fei
Keywords:
Marxmodernitysocial relationsalienationreification
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Abstract:
Marx defined the essence of mankind as the sum of all social relations. This definition determinesthe ontological position of social relations in his critique of modernity. Only when he understood the real socialrelations rather than the abstract human nature as the defining feature of human beings did Marx accomplish hislogical transformation from alienation to reification. He believed modernity is a certain kind of social relationand therefore focused his alienation theory on criticizing the modern social relations. He found a new worldwhile criticizing the old one and the core of his critique of modernity represents itself as a kind of modernistdialectics. This change in Marxism is a great achievement not only in theory but also in reality.

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