The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm
This book, shortlisted for the British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize (2015), argues that Fromm is a vital and largely overlooked contribution to twentieth-century intellectual history, and one who offers a refreshingly reconfigur
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The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm Kieran Durkin
THE RADICAL HUMANISM OF ERICH FROMM
Copyright © Kieran Durkin, 2014. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-43639-9 All rights reserved. First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
ISBN 978-1-349-49344-9 ISBN 978-1-137-42843-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137428431 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Durkin, Kieran. The radical humanism of Erich Fromm / Kieran Durkin. pages cm.—(Critical political theory and radical practice) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Fromm, Erich, 1900–1980. 2. Humanism—Philosophy. 3. Humanistic psychology. 4. Psychoanalysis. I. Title. BF109.F76D87 2014 150.1986—dc23
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Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction
vii 1
Chapter 1 The Life and Writings of a Radical Humanist
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Chapter 2 The Roots of Radical Humanism
41
Chapter 3 Radical Humanist Psychoanalysis
71
Chapter 4 Psychoanalytic Social Psychology
103
Chapter 5 Anti-Humanism: A Radical Humanist Defense
129
Chapter 6 The Renaissance of Humanism
165
Conclusion
207
Notes
215
Bibliography
229
Index
243
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Acknowledgments
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his book was a long time in the making. Because of this, many have influenced it—many more than it is possible or even conceivable to mention. As an undergraduate student in what seems like a different age, Scott Meikle and Harvie Ferguson jolted me out of my complacency in their own, very different ways, placing profoundly conflicting worldviews with their attendant problematics and problems forefrontal in what was then my youthful deliberating mind. Though this tribute may not wholly please them—so different are many of the positions I take in these pages from their own (this particularly applies to Harvie)—they nevertheless influenced the tangents of my thinking at a crucial stage in my intellectual development to such
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