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ALIENATION IS EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK
Part II are in their objective relation or
Before elaborating on Rahel in their relation to the object, the
Jaeggi’s approaches a little appropriation of that object.
more specific, I want to get to Here, we see cognitive and
the root of the term appropria- practical abilities, senses, pas-
tion. We can find the notion of sive in terms of recording, and
appropriating something in active ways of perception,
Marx, where he addresses nu- which we use to orient our-
merous ways of perception, selves and to give meaning to
senses, and, as it were, bodily, our surroundings. The set of the
emotional and mental ‘means of listed means is what is given to
living life’ amongst which he the human as a ‘being of nature’
mentions love, while describing with which he operates, and
how we approach the world: which he cannot help but devel-
‘Man appropriates to himself his oping and adjusting to his envi-
manifold essence in all sided ronment. However, Marx refers
way, thus as a whole man. to the human essence once
Every one of his human rela- again, that is, labour as dis-
tions to the world – seeing, cussed before. If we, however,
hearing, smelling, tasting, feel- replace human essence with
ing, thinking, perceiving, sens- the account of freedom, in other
ing, wishing, acting, loving – in words, with the willing alone we
short, all the organs of his indi- can unlock appropriation as an
viduality […] ability to ‘work through’an active