@misc{Amarshi, author = {Amarshi, Aliya}, title = {From Pain to Power: A Socio-Psychological Investigation of Anti-Racist Feminist Ressentiment, Dissertation, in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy), Sociology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2018, 348 + 7 pp. [yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/42b76ef0-db96-4a23-a501-61ee3c513404/content]}, abstract = {In recent years, identity-based movements have increasingly been criticized by outsiders for espousing a >culture of outrage< both in terms of their academic expressions and activist mobilizations. In the present study, I examine this charge from within the struggle by advancing a self-reflexive socio-psychological investigation into certain emotional responses, attitudes, and practices that have, in significant ways, come to define this type of political agitation. Specifically, I focus my analysis on anti-racist feminism given my personal ties and investment in this movement. Following Wendy Brown, I investigate whether anti-racist feminism suffers from the Nietzschean affliction of ressentiment, and if so, what can be done to reorient the movement towards a more affirmative and humanist future. I address this latter objective through the work of Erich Fromm who I argue provides us with insights that are especially pertinent to our current problem, and which, when developed further with the aid of anti-racist interventions, can offer a fruitful means to moving forward.}, language = {en} } @misc{Beasley, author = {Beasley, Allison}, title = {We Shall Not Be Moved: Finding Hope in the Stories of Elementary School Teachers in Rural Georgia, Doctoral dissertation (in partial fulfillment of the requirements), Education, Graduate Faculty, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States 2018, 114+11 pp., English. [digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/1753]}, abstract = {Many perceive education and teaching as hopeless, so why do some teachers stay in the profession? This dissertation is focused on the stories of veteran public elementary school teachers in rural Georgia who continue to teach in spite of the current seemingly hopeless state of education at the local, state and national level. The theoretical framework of this inquiry builds upon a wide array of works such as the work of Freire (1994, 1998) and Fromm (2010) on critical hope, as well as, multiple theorists' work on versions of hope (West, 2004; Giroux, 2013; Duncan-Andrade, 2009; Lear, 2006); the work on passion for teaching (Palmer, 2007; Nieto, 2003, 2005, 2008; Ayers, 2008; Villerand et al., 2003; Fernet et al., 2014; Phelps \& Benson, 2012), as well as, morale in education (Evans, 1997; Mackenzie, 2007). Methodologically, I utilize narrative inquiry (Clandinin, 2013; Clandinin \& Connelly, 1988, 2000) to collect teacher stories (Witherell \& Noddings, 1991; Cole, 1990; Shubert \& Ayers, 1992; He, 2003; Nieto, 2003, 2005) of what keeps veteran teachers in the elementary school classroom despite all of the challenges in education today, and to learn from those seasoned teachers who choose to stay in the classroom about hope and hopelessness in classrooms today. I then created a collage of the stories that I gathered from the participants. Three themes emerged from this inquiry as to why teachers choose to remain in the classroom: (1) participants' love for their students, (2) participants' love for learning and (3) participants' understanding of a >bigger picture< in education. Two themes emerged in regards to what we can learn from teachers who choose to stay in the classroom about hope and hopelessness in classrooms: (1) the importance of positivity and (2) the impact of stress related to teaching.}, language = {en} } @misc{Fresse, author = {Fresse, Dante A.}, title = {Lang and Law: Analyzing Representations of Law, Justice, and Violence in the Films of Fritz Lang, Bachelor thesis, Film/Media Studies, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States 2018, 128+14 pp. [digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/honors_theses/473] [application of Fromm's theories to art]}, abstract = {This thesis analyzes the representations of Law, Justice, and Violence in the German and American films of Fritz Lang. Through an overview of legal and social unrest in Germany and courtroom drama, criminal conviction, mob violence, and police corruption in America, Lang challenges the legitimacy of Law and shows how it is subverted by outside forces. At other times, Lang shows Law working in collusion with criminal agencies or against the interests of the public. In doing this, Lang's films present images of legal decay in the urban sphere, prompted by anxieties which come about through spatial alienation, city structure, penal institutions, and social cultures of violence. Emerging from Lang's critique of Law is an ethical force which abides by the mechanisms of human nature, which Gunning calls the >destiny-machine.< This thesis uses Gunning's theory of the >destiny-machine,< in conjunction with philosophical writings of Walter Benjamin to show how a critique of legal violence is shown through Lang films, as well as a correction method which presents itself through the deployment of mystical violence, taking the form of psychological instability and moral conscience in his characters. Through these forms of metaphysical violence, Lang shows images of a new future for Law, where its governing power is drawn from universal, objective moral principles of human nature, rather than the socially constructed and malleable institutions of the Law. My thesis connects these morally governing principles back to the fundamental human and religious experiences of Love.}, language = {en} } @misc{Karppinen, author = {Karppinen, Karima}, title = {Three Theories on Love. The Relationship between Romantic Love and Love for God in the Philosophies of Miguel de Unamuno, Erich Fromm and Vladimir Solovyov , Master's thesis, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland 2018, 41 pp., English [application of Fromm's theories to art]}, abstract = {The aim of this dissertation is to draw a connection between romantic love and love for God, through the eyes of three philosophers, Miguel De Unamuno, Erich Fromm and Vladimir Solovyov. Each thinker's theory will be explained and briefly evaluated. The two typologies of loves will be compared as ways of overcoming our sense of separateness and as attempts to experience unity. The nature, motives and consequences of both types of loves will be examined and then compared. Finally, an attempt will be made to see whether what a believer experiences in his or her love for God, is similar to what any human being can experience through romantic love.}, language = {en} } @misc{Nonomura, author = {Nonomura, Robert J.}, title = {>Mine< or >Ours<: Property and Moral Reasoning, Doctoral dissertation (in partial fulfillment of the requirements), Doctoral dissertation (in partial fulfillment of the requirements), Sociology, The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 2018, 153+12 pp., English. [ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7395\&context=etd]}, abstract = {This research seeks to address long-standing empirical questions about human morality arising from the critical sociological tradition. It examines, in social-psychological terms, the theoretical contention that systems of ownership predicated on exclusionary conceptions of what is >mine< and/or >ours< causes people to overlook or decidedly ignore the needs of others and of society at large. More specifically, it draws upon the theoretical works of Karl Marx, Erich Fromm, Erik Erikson, and C. B. Macpherson to examine the relationships between individuals' attitudes toward private property relations and the kinds of >active< or >passive< cognitive processes individuals use when reasoning about moral problems. A sample of 139 graduate and undergraduate students completed an online survey that contained both established and exploratory attitude scales pertaining to property ownership norms, humanism, and possessive individualism. Following the psychological research of Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg, participants were also asked to express moral judgments on two hypothetical moral dilemmas, and their responses were coded according to characteristics of morally >heteronomous< or >autonomous< reasoning. OLS regressions were conducted to investigate the relationships between these forms of moral reasoning and the aforementioned attitude scales. The study's results suggest a positive relationship between cognitive moral autonomy and humanism, as well as for the inverse relationship between cognitive moral autonomy and both private property attitudes and possessive individualism. These findings provide general (albeit tentative) support for certain theoretical critiques of private property within the Marxist-humanist tradition, namely the premise that private property norms are at odds with the exercise of autonomous moral cognition. Theoretical implications of these findings, both for the Marxian theoretical tradition and for the development of a critically oriented socialpsychology of morality are also addressed.}, language = {en} } @misc{Raditya, author = {Raditya, Yoga}, title = {The Representation of Love, Family, and Dramatic Irony in William Wordsworth's >We Are Seven<, Bachelor thesis (in partial fulfillment of the requirements), Literature, English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Diponegoro University, Tembalang, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia 2018, 41+10 pp., English [eprints.undip.ac.id/66665/1/YOGA'S_THESIS_FINAL.pdf] [application of Fromm's theories to art]}, abstract = {This thesis has the purpose to analyze the intrinsic aspects and extrinsic aspects which are presented in William Wordsworth's poem >We are Seven<.The objectives of the study are to understand the intrinsic aspects which focuses on three main points, imagery, diction and dramatic irony; and to understand the family love which is possessed by the speaker. The writer used library research in collecting the data and used the textual method in analyzing the data. To understand the intrinsic aspects the writer uses Laurence Perrine's >Literature Structure, Sound and Sense<, and to understand the family love the writer uses Eric Fromm's >The Art of Loving<. The result of this study is to show how deep and great the little girl love for her family is.}, language = {en} } @misc{Rahmadani, author = {Rahmadani, Nadia Mutiara}, title = {Motherly Love as Portrayed in Dorothea from 20th Century Women Movie, Bachelor thesis (in partial fulfillment of the requirements), Literature, English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Diponegoro University, Tembalang, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia 2018, 24+10 pp., English. [eprints.undip.ac.id/68596/1/Project_Nadia_Mutiara_R_-_13020114120028.pdf] [application of Fromm's theories to art]}, abstract = {The purpose of this final project is to analyze how motherly love portrayed in Dorothea, the main character of Mike Mills' 20th Century Women movie. In collecting data, the writer uses library research such as reading text books, articles and internet. The writer focuses on intrinsic and extrinsic elements in analyzing motherly love. The intrinsic elements are character, setting, conflict and cinematographic. The extrinsic elements are by psychological approach, psychoanalysis that is id, ego, superego, and motherly love. The result shows that motherly love can be seen in how Dorothea raising her one and only son, Jamie.}, language = {en} } @misc{York, author = {York, Emma Dane}, title = {Disorder: Contemporary Fascism and the Crisis in Mental Health, Master of Arts, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Political Studies, Department of Political Studies, University of, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada 2018, 56 + 3 pp. [hdl.handle.net/10388/11199]}, language = {en} }