Abstract
This article analyzes the Marxian theory of alienation in the Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, Grundrisse, and Volume I of Capital. The study assumes that the category of alienation acquires new determinations in Marx’s social theory, which are organically connected to the development of the capitalist mode of production and the consequent maturation of Marx’s critique of political economy. Such determinations materialize in the so-called “commodity fetishism,” the particular manifestation of alienation observed in the developed bourgeois sociability.
Keywords:
Marx; Alienation; Fetishism