@misc{Durkin, author = {Durkin, Kieran}, title = {The radical humanism of Erich Fromm: A re-appropriation. Dissertation at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow Typescript May 2013, 216 pp.}, number = {unpublished version / unver{\"o}ffentlichte Fassung}, abstract = {This thesis attempts to advance the underappreciated thought of Erich Fromm as both a crucial contribution to twentieth century intellectual history and a potentially pivotal point from which to transcend current theoretical impasses. In particular, I argue that Fromm's radical humanism can participate in the rejuvenation of contemporary social theory, which is still largely constrained by the dual reductionism of positivism and poststructuralism, and that a return to it will encourage renewed theorising of, and empirical engagement with, the connections that obtain between the >psychological< and the >social<, the >essential< and the >constructed<, and the >is< and the >ought<. I try to show that Fromm's qualified essentialism and ethical normativism are sensible, viable, and desirable, and that they, coupled with his analytic social psychology, which is based on his underlying humanism and elaborated through a unique fusion of Marx and Freud, provide the basis for the development of practical strategies to realise humanism in the world. Perhaps above all, I try to show that there is a deceptive complexity and sophistication to Fromm's ideas, which are all too often taken as simple and naive.}, 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} } @misc{Durkin, author = {Durkin, Kieran}, title = {Review Friedman, L. J., The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet}, series = {American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 76 (No. 2, 2016), pp. 206-209.}, journal = {American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 76 (No. 2, 2016), pp. 206-209.}, 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} } @misc{Durkin, author = {Durkin, Kieran}, title = {The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2014, 250 pp.}, language = {en} } @misc{Durkin, author = {Durkin, Kieran}, title = {Review Braune, J., Erich Fromm's Revolutionary Hope, and Miri, S. J. et al. (Eds.), Reclaiming the Sane Society}, series = {Marx and Philosophy - Review of Books, 23. November 2014, http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2014/1397}, journal = {Marx and Philosophy - Review of Books, 23. November 2014, http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2014/1397}, language = {en} } @misc{Durkin, author = {Durkin, Kieran}, title = {Review Braune, J.: Erich Fromm's Revolutionary Hope: Prophetic Messianism as a Critical Theory of the Future; Review Miri, S. J., Lake, R., and Kress, T. M. (Eds): Reclaiming the Sane Society: Essays on Erich Fromm's Thought}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 19 / 2015, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 69-72.}, volume = {e18/2015i}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 19 / 2015, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 69-72.}, 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} } @misc{Durkin, author = {Durkin, Kieran}, title = {Review McLaughlin, N., Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology}, series = {Sociology, Vol. 57 (No. 1, 2023), pp. 253-259.}, journal = {Sociology, Vol. 57 (No. 1, 2023), pp. 253-259.}, 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 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 = {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} }