The philosophers Marx and Heidegger may appear not to have any common traits, but they have both dealt with the concept of alienation. For Marx this alienation occurs in an economic setting and is the isolation of the product from the producer resulting in separation of workers from their creativity and from other workers. Heidegger described an existential alienation from an authentic mode of being that separates one from the choices one must make. According to Marx the alienated person is unable to engage socially with others, while Heidegger believed that the alienated person immersed themselves in a generic society in order to be isolated from themselves.