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The concept of alienation is a well-established socio-philosophical term. As a philosophical category it first appeared in the theories of social contract of the 17th–18th centuries, in which alienation was understood as transfer of certain rights of individuals to the state. In time, the category of alienation was further developed by well-known representatives of German Romanticism and Idealism. In the most general sense, according to German Idealism, alienation is a special state of an abstract rational being, in which this being cannot recognize its own manifestations. Further, if we assume that existence of a rational being is cognition, then alienation and its overcoming are the necessary parts of that existence as a natural movement from ignorance towards knowledge. Alienation as a social phenomenon that has to be overcome was exhaustively discussed in conceptual constructions by Karl Marx, who thoroughly developed the intention of L. Feuerbach, who applied the category of alienation to describe the actual situation of individuals in their everyday life. The paper analyzes the phenomenon of alienation of one’s professional activities from the sociophilosophical point of view. The concept of work as a synonym for human activity is taken as the basis for this analysis. The paper dwells on the main, in the view of the author, genetic causes of alienation of activities and suggests possible ways of its partial levelling.

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