9. “Like a Structure of Cotton Candy”: Being Oneself as Self-Appropriation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Translator’s Introduction xi
5. Preface and Acknowledgments xix
6. Part 1. The Relation of Relationlessness: Reconstructing a Concept of Social Philosophy
7. 1. “A Stranger in the World That He Himself Has Made”: The Concept and Phenomenon of Alienation 1
8. 2. Marx and Heidegger: Two Versions of Alienation Critique 11
9. 3. The Structure and Problems of Alienation Critique 22
10. 4. Having Oneself at One’s Command: Reconstructing the Concept of Alienation 32
11. Part 2. Living One’s Life as an Alien Life: Four Cases
12. 5. Seinesgleichen Geschieht or “The Like of It Now Happens”: The Feeling of Powerlessness and the Independent Existence of One’s Own Actions 43
13. 6. “A Pale, Incomplete, Strange, Artificial Man”: Social Roles and the Loss of Authenticity 68
14. 7. “She but Not Herself”: Self-Alienation as Internal Division 99
15. 8. “As If Through a Wall of Glass”: Indifference and Self-Alienation 131
16. Part 3. Alienation as a Disturbed Appropriation of Self and World
17. 9. “Like a Structure of Cotton Candy”: Being Oneself as Self-Appropriation 155
18. 10. “Living One’s Own Life”: Self-Determination, Self-Realization, and Authenticity 199
19. Conclusion: The Sociality of the Self, the Sociality of Freedom 216
20. Notes 221
21. Works Cited 251
22. Index 261