September 30, 1927 New York City, New York W.S. Merwin, in full William Stanley Merwin (born September 30 , 1927 New York, New York, U.S.) American poet and translator known for the spare style of his poetry, in which he expressed his concerns about the alienation of humans from their environment.
The dominant paradigm has become a growing alienation of humans from nature and a growing loss of the meaning of places (Kellert 2012).
It is the alienation of man, the devaluation of life, the perversion and loss of human reality.
In the first of these essays "The International of Decent Feelings," Althusser argues from what he takes to be "the truth of Christianity" against the popular post-war view that the misery, guilt, and alienation of the human condition in the atomic age is equally experienced by all subjects.
Allusions to the alienation of man's species being can be found in Animals; the "Dog" reduced to living instinctively as a non-human.
He believed that Buddhist humanism could relieve modern alienation and help reduce the destructive impact of humans on the planet.
"Any kind of alienation between human beings and nature is a distortion of Christian theology and anthropology," he said.
James Purdy, (born July 17 , 1923 Ohio, U.S. died March 13 , 2009 Englewood, N.J)., American novelist and short-story writer whose works explored the American way of life and presented a vision of human alienation, indifference, and cruelty.
The most ambitious attempt of this kind was Atterbom's Lycksalighetens ö (1824 27; "The Isle of Bliss"), an allegory dealing with adventures of a legendary king, Astolf, and a history of poetry as an illustration of human alienation from the divine.
While classical Marxists regard nature as a resource to be transformed by human labour and utilized for human purposes, Horkheimer and Adorno saw Marx himself as representative of the problem of "human alienation".
Hegel is well aware that art can be decorative, can promote moral and political goals, can explore the depths of human alienation or simply record the prosaic details of everyday life, and that it can do so with considerable artistry.
