
Alienation
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Hegel and the Verfremdungs Effect, Right?
Brecht's – and it's often translated as alienation effect. What Brecht is getting at is making you alienated so that you recognize the alienation that you are always feeling, right? So that's the – so it's not like – so I think that's more of a Marxist negative sense ofAlienation. But for Hegel, it's just that like – well, actually, I mean to put the word negative in there, like – it is negative. You need this negativity, but it has like – again, it's a positive connotation to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. Like it's freeing, and I think – you know, it's interesting to
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