Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:15:01 -0500
From: Richard Moodey <moodey001-AT-mail1.gannon.edu>
Subject: Re: BHA: alienation


At 12:40 PM 01/15/2002 +0000, Mervyn wrote:

>The Eden-Fall-Redemption motif can be regarded as a general conceptual
>schema within which a variety of approaches to history and explaining
>why you are sitting in your office feeling alienated, can be deployed,
>including certainly historical materialism which I take it you think
>(rightly I would say) can give the most adequate account of the rise and
>dynamics of capitalism; indeed, a version of the schema is recapitulated
>in Marx's primitive communism-class society-communism shema. All
>theories of history arguably implicitly, if not explicitly, contain some
>such general conceptual schema, and can't be deployed coherently without
>one, and so getting the schema right is important for really
>understanding why you're sitting there.

Yes, but I would want to take it a step further.  "Alienation" is also a 
conceptual scheme within which a variety of approaches to explaining why 
you are sitting in your office feeling bad but not necessarily in physical 
pain or sickness.

Regards,

Dick



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