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She has been professor of philosophy at Humboldt University of Berlin since 2009. Axel Honneth was a research assistant to Jürgen Habermas at the University of Frankfurt’s Institute of Social Research in the years 1983–19891 and obtained his habilitation with a work on the theory of recognition at the same university in 1990. Honneth became the director of the University of Frankfurt’s Institute of Social Research in 2001 and is Professor of Philosophy.\n\nThe Frankfurt School’s first generation, thinkers such as Adorno, Horkheimer and Marcuse, was directly influenced by Lukács’ concept of reification. This notion had impact on Horkheimer and Adorno’s concept of instrumental reason and Marcuse’s notion of technological rationality. Habermas as the main representative of the Frankfurt School’s second generation reinterpreted Lukács’ notion in his theory of communicative action as the colonisation of the lifeworld. Honneth is the key thinker in the Frankfurt School’s third generation, whereas Jaeggi and Rosa can be considered to be fourth generation critical theorists. The question arises how the third and fourth generation, the theoretical heirs of Adorno, Horkheimer and Habermas, understand alienation. I deal with this question in sections 2 and 3.\n\nIn section 4, I try to outline some foundations of a dialectical, materialist and Hegelian concept of alienation that is based on Honneth’s approach, but simultaneously quite substantially departs from it. In section 5, I use this approach for reflecting on alienation and the Internet with the help of the example of corporate social media.\n\n5.2. Lukács’ Theory of Reification and Alienation\n\n5.2.1. Objectification and Alienation\n\nGeorg Lukács (1971) argues in the preface to the 1967 edition of History and Class Consciousness that he wrote the book before publication of Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts and that the latter changed his view of this reification and alienation. It would be necessary to discern between objectification and alienation. The first would be part of any production process in any society: ‘If we bear in mind that every externalization of an object in practice (and hence, too, in work) is an objectification, that every human expression including speech objectifies human thoughts and feelings, then it is clear the we are dealing with a universal mode of commerce between men’ (Lukács 1971, xxiv).\n\nThe use of the term ‘commerce’ is unfortunate in the English translation. The German original says ‘Verkehr[s] der Menschen miteinander’ (Lukács 1967, 26), which can best be translated as ‘forms of intercourse among humans’, a term that has often been used in the English translation of Marx’s term ‘Verkehrsform’. Translating ‘Verkehr’ as ‘commerce’ creates the impression that Lukács reifies market societies, although his very thinking is anti-reifying.\n\n154\n\nCritical Theory of Communication","previous_page":null,"next_page":155}