An Exploration Into Carl Marx's Theory Of Alienation

Alienation, prompted by Carl Marx in his "Paris Note Books", has remained controversial in academic arena. Scholars and researchers have focused on this issue and various viewpoints were offered ever since. How to treat Carl Marx's theory of alienation remains an important theoretical question that can't be avoided about in the research of Marx as well as in the realistic criticism in the field.This thesis is designed to find out the nature of Marx's theory of alienation, what alienation means to his intellectual development, as well as how to treat alienation taking consideration into the development of philosophy as a whole. All of these need to make an objective and factual description and the inspection.The thesis takes a retrospective view of the development of alienation itself, from its debut to various theories on alienation in modern times. The author argues that the western philosophy dating back to the Greek Philosophy, and in particular, the theory of Hegel and Feuerbach had influence on Marx in the early times. The author also holds that the primitivism of rationalism, born in the infancy of western philosophy, is the very origin of Marx's theory of alienation.At last, through the text analysis of "Paris Note Books", the author believes that Marx's Alienation can not but be understood in that he both inherited and reformed the ideas of Hegel and Feuerbach, meanwhile, the traces of traditional western philosophy in Marx's theory should also be noted. Moreover, maneuvered to surpass his ancestors and made many practical endeavors effectively, and laid a foundation of the founding of Historical materialism. However, as for alienation, he inherited from the ancestors for the most part. Therefore, Marx completed the transformation of his political stance, and then his philosophical stance, which was not realized until he completed "On Feuerbach" and "The German Ideology".