With Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, alienation is represented on a purely physical plane.

I shall first indicate a couple of weaknesses in Fromm's analysis, then argue that, granted these weaknesses, he still has much left that is valuable, and, finally, raise the general question of a philosophical versus a sociological approach to the question of alienation.

Despite its rather long intellectual history, alienation is still a promising hypothesis and not a verified theory.

What is missing is work that would answer, presumably by the use of survey methods and Guttman-type attitude scales, such questions as these: What are the components of the feeling-state described as alienation??

How widespread is alienation??

Taking alienation as a dependent variable, with what socio-structural factors is it most highly associated??

Until such work is done, there must remain the nagging suspicion that alienation may be little more than an expression of the malaise of the intellectual, who, rejected by and in turn rejecting the larger society, projects his own fear and despair onto the broader social screen.

Nor do I think that alienation is nothing more than a projection of the malaise of the intellectual.

When alienation is used as an objective and diagnostic category, for example, it becomes clear that Fromm would have to say that awareness of alienation goes far toward conquering it.

James Basker also acknowledged this force when he explained why he chose " Amazing Grace " to represent a collection of anti-slavery poetry: " there is a transformative power that is applicable ...: the transformation of sin and sorrow into grace, of suffering into beauty, of alienation into empathy and connection, of the unspeakable into imaginative literature.

There is a kind of Brechtian alienation idea here: you are aware of what you are watching at the same time that you are emotionally involved with it .”

It is also true that the content of certain films ( such as dark subjects, alienation, transgressive content, or other controversial subject matter ) can also decide whether or not a film is a " cult film ", regardless of the film's budget or studio affiliations.

However, the topography other than coastlines and major rivers is quite different, and the only apparent reference to the real world besides the map may be the Blood Wood, known as " Wyrm Wood " before the Scourge and similar in location and extent to the Chernobyl ( Ukrainian for " wormwood ") Zone of alienation.

Yard with Lunatics is a horrifying and imaginary vision of loneliness, fear and social alienation, a departure from the rather more superficial treatment of mental illness in the works of earlier artists such as Hogarth.

The alienation of possessions of the exarchate of Ravenna is condemned, and the Ordinaries made by the intruders are invalid.

When Silas Marner is persuaded that his alienation from the church means also his alienation from society, the author's life is again mirrored with her refusal to attend church.

The phrase " absolute alienation of reason " is still regarded as at the core of the defense in the modern law ( see HM Advocate v Kidd ( 1960 ) JC 61 and Brennan v HM Advocate ( 1977 )

Lucas ’ lyrics were mostly concerned with social and political issues, from cruelty to animals, Northern Ireland, war, and social alienation, but were far from angry rants, often finding a positive and empowering perspective.

While more of a science-fiction story, the film conveyed the fears of living in the Atomic Age and the terror of social alienation.

As with the dialectic, Marx began with a Hegelian notion of alienation but developed a more materialist conception.

The characteristics of this style — a combination of the depictive, the abstract, and the psychological — came to stand for the alienation which many people felt in the modern period, combined with the sense of reaching more deeply into the psyche, to be " made whole with one's individuality ".

The group would also employ newer production techniques to achieve a more refined studio sound on the albums Sleepwalker ( 1977 ) and Misfits ( 1978 ), as Davies ' focus shifted to wistful ballads of restless alienation (" Life on the Road ", " Misfits "), meditations on the inner lives of obsessed pop fans (" Juke Box Music ", " A Rock & Roll Fantasy "), and exhortations of carpe diem (" Life Goes On ", " Live Life ", " Get Up ").

As he begins to organize Zampanò ’ s manuscripts, his personal footnotes detail the deterioration of his own life with analogous references to alienation and insanity: once a trespasser to Zampanò's mad realm, Truant seems to become more comfortable in the environment as the story unfolds.

Pursuing a more dance-orientated sound were Bronski Beat whose album The Age of Consent ( 1984 ), dealing with issues of homophobia and alienation, reached the top 20 in the UK and top 40 in the US.

In more recent times, it has been associated with the poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, whose Verfremdungseffekt (" alienation effect ") was a potent element of his approach to theater.

This system is often mistakenly called love, but is in fact nothing more than emotional alienation and a denial of freedom through conflict with the other.

Since Hardy was always highly critical of organized religion, as Emma became more and more religious, their differing views led to a great deal of tension in their marriage, and this tension was a big factor that led to their increased alienation from one another.

) What's more, he foresaw the alienation and isolation that many have come to experience in modern life.

Coinciding with a violent raid on a European settlement on the East Coast by Te Kooti, shattered what European colonists regarded as a new era of peace and prosperity, creating fears of a " general uprising of hostile Māoris ", but once Titokowaru was defeated and the East Coast threat minimised, the alienation of Māori land, as well as the political subjugation of Māori, continued at an even more rapid pace.

There followed twelve years of economic cooperation and development together with the gradual alienation of yet more Māori land which, inevitably, only lead to more conflict.

The war, coinciding with a violent raid on a European settlement on the East Coast by fugitive guerrilla fighter Te Kooti, shattered what European colonists regarded as a new era of peace and prosperity, creating fears of a " general uprising of hostile Māoris ", but once Titokowaru was defeated and the East Coast threat minimised, the alienation of Māori land, as well as the political subjugation of Māori, continued at an even more rapid pace.

When the socialist state ( the dictatorship of the proletariat ) naturally withers away, what will remain is a society in which human beings no longer suffer from alienation and " all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly.

The second album dealt more extensively with themes of alienation, with many dark lyrics about apparently psychotic characters, including the opening track, " Jimmie Jones ", about cult leader Jim Jones.

It also frequently dealt with taboo subject matter, depicting society's grimy underbelly in great detail, and venting alienation that was more intense and personal than ever before.

Former Village Voice editor Robert Christgau gave the album an A – rating and praised Waits and Brennan's songwriting, saying " together they humanize the percussion-battered Bone Machine sound, reconstituting his ' 80s alienation effects into a Delta harshness with more give to it.

The ideas of Harrington and his allies led to alienation of some NF supporters with the Flag Group splitting off to follow more traditional NF ideas.

Since that time, other researchers have suggested focusing less on diagnosing a syndrome and more on what has been described as the " alienated child ", and the dynamics of the situation that have contributed to the alienation.

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) Starting from this, and accepting his estimate of the iniquities of modern society, it would follow that the really disturbing evidence of alienation would be that of a work-satisfaction survey which reported widespread, stated worker satisfaction, rather than widespread, stated worker dissatisfaction.

A society of artisans promotes the distributist ideal of the unification of capital, ownership, and production rather than what distributism sees as an alienation of man from work.

Their lyrics focus on pain and personal alienation rather than traditional heavy metal themes.

The “ growth ” generated by an economy developing for its own sake can be nothing other than a growth of the very alienation that was at its origin.

The album was darker than previous Primus efforts, dealing with murder, suicide, and alienation.

Branagh took this insight a step further and turned the play into a musical, going much further in his adaptation of the play than he had ever done in his Shakespeare films, and risking the alienation of both audiences and serious critics.

After alienation, the tenant expected nothing from the new tenant, other than the price of the alienation.

Women, on the other hand, were found to have an increased sense of alienation on the campus but lacked the attitude change detected in men, presumably because norms related to alcohol consumption on campus are much more central for men than for women.

The young people, who are in much higher proportions in many LDCs, are likely to be more volatile, unstable, prone to extremes, alienation and violence than an older population.

In the 19th century, the Arts and Crafts movement of William Morris in the UK and Elbert Hubbard in the US noted how " alienation " of workers from ownership of the tools of production and their work product was destructive of the work ethic because in the expanding firms of that era, the workers saw no point in doing more than the minimum.

# Kinship is better than alienation

The land reform designed to favour the Poles in mostly Ukrainian populated Volhynia, the agricultural territory where the land question was especially severe, brought the alienation from the Polish state of even the Orthodox Volhynian population who tended to be much less radical than the Greek Catholic Galicians.

Aamadu Bàmba Mbàkke, Senegal's most famous Sufi, was more than a spiritual master ; he had a social mission as well, that of rescuing society from colonial alienation and returning it to the " Straight Path " of Islam.

In the 1970s and ' 80s, Steiner was a founder and practitioner of Radical Psychiatry, a new approach to psychotherapy based in a social theory ( of alienation ) rather than a medical one ( of individual pathology ).

Decisions about possible parental alienation are considered a legal decision, to be determined by the judge based on the facts of the case, rather than a diagnosis made by a mental health professional.

Other critics said it was nothing but " an interesting variation of the old alienation theme "; " a social statement rather than.

Some of Těsnohlídek's other work reflects more pessimism and alienation than the lighthearted Vixen's tale.

In Peled's view, " this was less than a satisfactory response to Bauer, but it enabled Marx to present a powerful case for emancipation while, at the same time, launching his critique of economic alienation ".