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As the rise of global right-wing populism and Trumpism creates new interest in psycho-social writing and popular sociology, this timely book tells the story of the rise, fall and contemporary revival of the thoeries of Erich Fromm, a 1930s influential and creative public intellectual.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McLaughlin, Neil (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Fromm, Erich, > 1900-1980.
Sociology.
Social psychology.
sociology.
social psychology.
Sociologie.
Psychologie sociale.
Sociology
Psychology, Social
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Series
  • Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • Introduction: Erich Fromm's Global Public Sociology
  • What is public sociology and why does it matter?
  • Was Fromm really a sociologist?
  • The sociological importance of books for social movements: Fromm's paperback public sociology
  • Public sociology and celebrity intellectuals
  • 1 Sociology in a World at War: Escape from Freedom
  • The social psychology of fascism
  • Theoretical core: an existentialist revision of psychoanalysis
  • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Authoritarianism
  • The reception of Escape from Freedom
  • Escapes reformulated: professional historical sociology
  • Empirical and historical limitations
  • Reframing Fromm's sociology of emotions and nationalism
  • A micro-foundation for political sociology
  • The current crisis and public sociology
  • 2 How Optimal Marginality Created a Public Sociologist
  • Youth on the margins of German capitalism
  • A prophetic empirical social psychology, Jewish psychoanalysis and utopian socialism
  • Three key circles: Frankfurt scholar, neo-Freudianism, and the national character tradition
  • Critical theory, neo-Freudianism, and theorizing among the anthropologists
  • The critical theorists
  • Adorno replaces Fromm
  • The neo-Freudian intellectual movement
  • Fromm and Horney's collaboration
  • Margaret Mead and the culture and personality school
  • A general theory of the public sociologist
  • 3 The Cold War, Conformity, and the 1960s
  • Riesman meets Fromm: from therapist to mentor
  • Man for Himself (1947) and the critique of conformity
  • Capitalism and the Reformation
  • American capitalism and the marketing character
  • The Lonely Crowd revisited
  • The Sane Society (1955) and the seeds of the 1960s
  • Conclusion: Fromm's influence on professional Cold War/1960s-era sociology
  • 4 How Fromm Became a Forgotten Public Sociologist
  • The Fromm-Marcuse debate
  • Dissent and the anti-Stalinist left
  • Marcuse's critique of Fromm: conformist revisionist?
  • Fromm's fall from intellectual grace
  • A public sociologist of love and intimacy
  • Fromm's decline consolidated
  • The trouble with fame and the social construction of Marcuse as a left icon
  • The sociological reception of the Fromm-Marcuse debate in the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s
  • 5 Fromm's Political Activism in the 1960s
  • Instrumental intimacy, David Riesman, and the fight against nuclear war
  • Beyond militarism and ideology: May Man Prevail?
  • How Fromm become a peace activist
  • Socialist public intellectual: Marx's Concept of Man
  • Fromm's socialist activism in the 1960s
  • A book for a political campaign: The Revolution of Hope
  • The double-edged sword of political engagement
  • How activism sharpened Fromm's intellectual vision

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