The idea of ‘alienation’ by Karl Marx is one of the most widely discussed concepts in social, political and economic theory. It is an idea that a young Marx developed out of his study of Friedrich ...

Alienation in educational contexts refers to students’ growing estrangement from the core elements of schooling, encompassing detachment from learning activities, diminished rapport with teachers, and ...

Marx’s theory of alienation delineates how workers become estranged from the products of their labour, the labour process, their own human potential and from one another under capitalist modes of ...

This is a very long document that includes lots of summaries of left-wing scholarship, essays and articles on many topics of philosophy and history, reflections on modern culture, human psychology, ...

Join us for the Brian Barry Memorial Lecture, an annual event honouring the work of political philosopher and former colleague, Professor Brian Barry. This year’s lecture will be given by Professor ...