@article{Durkin, author = {Durkin, Kieran}, title = {Living life as an art: Erich Fromm and Michel Foucault on the art of existence in late capitalism - https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000400}, series = {The Humanist Psychologist (American Psychological Association - APA), Vol. 53 (2025), pp. 598-614.}, journal = {The Humanist Psychologist (American Psychological Association - APA), Vol. 53 (2025), pp. 598-614.}, abstract = {The notion of an art of living/existence has become popularized in social theoretical discourse, largely due to the work of Michel Foucault. What is less well known is that an earlier account, with certain clear similarities to that of Foucault, can be found in the writings of Erich Fromm. Fromm and Foucault both elaborate upon what we can, following Foucault, call >practices of freedom,< but they do so in different ways. In this article, I consider Fromm's and Foucault's respective accounts of an art of living/existence and their attendant >practices of freedom.< The problem of self-constitution is highlighted, and the psychoanalytical notion of the subject is considered relative to the Nietzschean and Freudian heritages that prefigure, in positive or negative form, each respective account. Finally, the notion of >practices of freedom< is assessed relative to the issue of social transformation under conditions of late capitalism. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)}, language = {en} } @article{Durkin, author = {Durkin, Kieran}, title = {Erich Fromm and Marxism: A Re-appraisal}, series = {J. Fantauzzi, M. Levitin, T. Maley (Eds.), Erich Fromm and Left Strategy . New Paths Toward Radical Transformation, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2025, pp. 285-306.}, journal = {J. Fantauzzi, M. Levitin, T. Maley (Eds.), Erich Fromm and Left Strategy . New Paths Toward Radical Transformation, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2025, pp. 285-306.}, language = {en} } @article{Durkin, author = {Durkin, Kieran}, title = {Erich Fromm and the Revolution of Hope}, series = {The International Marxist-Humanist Journal (https://imhojournal.org/) 2020.}, journal = {The International Marxist-Humanist Journal (https://imhojournal.org/) 2020.}, language = {en} } @article{Durkin, author = {Durkin, Kieran}, title = {Mapping Fromm's Critical Theory}, series = {K. Durkin and J. Braune (Eds.), Erich Fromm's Critical Theory. Hope, Humanism, and the Future, New York (Bloomsbury) 2020, pp. 1-19.}, journal = {K. Durkin and J. Braune (Eds.), Erich Fromm's Critical Theory. Hope, Humanism, and the Future, New York (Bloomsbury) 2020, pp. 1-19.}, language = {en} } @article{Durkin, author = {Durkin, Kieran}, title = {Erich Fromm and Theodor W. Adorno Reconsidered: A Case Study in Intellectual History}, series = {New German Critique 136, Vol. 46, No. 1, February 2019, pp. 103-126.}, journal = {New German Critique 136, Vol. 46, No. 1, February 2019, pp. 103-126.}, language = {en} } @article{Durkin, author = {Durkin, Kieran}, title = {The Art of Living and the Dialectics of Social Transformation}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 024-032.}, volume = {e23/2019b}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 024-032.}, abstract = {In this paper I compare Fromm's account of social transformation with that of Alain Touraine. I argue that although there are many points of connection between Fromm's account of >the art of living< and Alain Touraine's account of the >Politics of the Subject,< Fromm ultimately goes beyond Touraine at many points, offering a more detailed explanatory account of how individual transformation is related to the larger, but related, goal of social transformation. I conclude that Fromm's often overlooked account of the mechanics of individual change ought to be returned to in the process of reinvigorating social theory and practice.}, language = {en} } @article{Durkin, author = {Durkin, Kieran}, title = {Erich Fromm: Studies in Social Character}, series = {Law, A., and Lybeck, E. R. (Eds.), Sociological Amnesia. Cross-currents in Disciplinary History (Classical and Contemporary Social Theory), Farnham and Burlington (Ashgate) 2015 [Chapter 4].}, journal = {Law, A., and Lybeck, E. R. (Eds.), Sociological Amnesia. Cross-currents in Disciplinary History (Classical and Contemporary Social Theory), Farnham and Burlington (Ashgate) 2015 [Chapter 4].}, language = {en} }