@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{Deguchi, author = {Deguchi, Takeshi}, title = {Post-Truth Politics as a Pathology of Normalcy: Beyond Alienation and Narcissism in the Age of Globalization}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 161-168.}, volume = {e23/2019m}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 161-168.}, abstract = {The aim of this paper is to examine post-truth politics using Erich Fromm's theory of narcissism and showing a route towards a sane society in Fromm's sense. Post-truth situations are generated by negative synergistic effects between narcissistic psychological tendencies and social media. Both of them have so-called filter bubble effects which segregate people from inner and outer reality. The process of integrating an unknown experience or reality into the self produces a new experience. That is a definition of Fromm's love and the way to overcome narcissism.}, language = {en} } @article{Funk, author = {Funk, Rainer}, title = {Erich Fromm: Bringing Psychoanalysis and Sociology Together}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 009-023.}, volume = {e23/2019a}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 009-023.}, abstract = {In my overview of the development of Fromm's theories, I show, first of all, how Fromm and his theory of relatedness and social character aimed to understand the individual and society in a different way from what was usual at that time. Secondly, I expound how relevant the often ignored social psychoanalytical approach is for current thinking in terms of relatedness, and how open his approach is to insights stemming from human biology.}, language = {en} } @article{Jimenez, author = {Jimenez, Luis}, title = {Revisiting Fromm's Concept of Social Character and Social Change: An Example from De-Industrialized Working Class Communities in the UK}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 182-198.}, volume = {e23/2019p}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 182-198.}, abstract = {This paper highlights the relevance of Erich Fromm's concepts of social character and social change to offer a more nuanced understanding of the neo-liberal inter-generational traumatic legacy of loss of stable work, changing worker gendered identity, disrupted affect, community engagement and historical memory within a global context of insecure labour and emerging neoliberal forms of social character in the aftermath of massive redundancies and unemployment experienced recently in some post-industrial working class communities in the UK.}, language = {en} } @article{Kuehn, author = {K{\"u}hn, Thomas}, title = {Leadership in a Digitally Transforming Social World Based on Fromm's Humanistic Approach}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 095-107.}, volume = {e23/2019h}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 095-107.}, abstract = {In the social sciences, there are different point of views on how social change has an impact on good leadership in contemporary societies. As a contribution to this debate, this article builds on basic ideas of the humanistic approach of Erich Fromm and highlights the associated possibilities for an adequate understanding of contemporary leadership demands. Key narratives and open questions related to challenges for leadership in contemporary societies facing digital transformation are evaluated from a Frommian perspective.}, language = {en} } @article{GojmandeMillanMillan, author = {Gojman de Mill{\´a}n, Sonia and Mill{\´a}n, Salvador}, title = {Developmental Roots of Productive and Unproductive Social Character Traits}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 199-210.}, volume = {e23/2019q}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 199-210.}, abstract = {A longitudinal study of early attachment and social character development of 14 Nahuat mother-infant dyads -since the infants were 11 months, having assessed them at 9 years of age and again in their late adolescence- show a significant improvement on the youngsters' emotional development. The study conducted by the Seminario de Sociopsicoan{\´a}lisis within a 40-year-long humanizing project in the village, called >Intercultural Participation Project,< suggests the benefit of promoting the rescue of their indigenous Nahuat culture and tradition.}, language = {en} } @article{FunkKuehn, author = {Funk, Rainer and K{\"u}hn, Thomas}, title = {Introduction}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 005-008..}, volume = {e23/2019w}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 005-008..}, language = {en} } @article{MaccobyMclaughlin, author = {Maccoby, Michael and Mclaughlin, Neil}, title = {Sociopsychoanalysis and Radical Humanism: A Fromm-Bourdieu Synthesis}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 045-057.}, volume = {e23/2019d}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 045-057.}, abstract = {Mainstream social science has been blindsided by the rise of Trumpism and broader growth of authoritarian populism. We make the case that Frommian work is desperately needed inside the core of contemporary social science theorizing by examining social character theory up against and alongside the concept of habitus developed by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Both Fromm and Bourdieu were concerned with the human costs of social change and economic development, Fromm with his writings on advanced capitalism in The Sane Society (1955a) and on Mexican village life in Social Character in a Mexican Village (with Michael Maccoby, 1970b), and Bourdieu with his extended studies of peasants in Algeria during the French colonial war of the 1950s and early 1960s. We will compare and contrast the theory of social character developed in the Mexican study with Bourdieu's concept of habitus, and discuss what Fromm's ideas can add to Bourdieu-influenced critical social science.}, language = {en} } @article{Maciel, author = {Maciel, Fabr{\´i}cio}, title = {Erich Fromm and the Culture of Contemporary Capitalism}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 058-069.}, volume = {e23/2019e}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 058-069.}, abstract = {In the first part, the article reconstructs, through the idea of >pathology of normalcy,< Fromm's critique of the cultural foundations of contemporary capitalism. In the second part, it is carried forward through the concepts of >social character< and new< capitalism, such as Axel Honneth, Richard Sennett and Boltanski \& Chiapello.}, language = {en} } @article{Lorenzen, author = {Lorenzen, S{\"u}nje}, title = {Alienation and >Productive Orientation< in Work. A Contribution to Erich Fromm's Critical Analysis of Society}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 108-117.}, volume = {e23/2019i}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 108-117.}, abstract = {Erich Fromm had developed a dialectical approach on alienation phenomena in work. On the one side he criticizes today's poor working conditions and on the other side he shows productive orientation in work. In my essay I will discuss empirical and theoretical contributions of social-psychological research in this Frommian perspective.}, language = {en} }