@misc{CamargoRibeiroMarquesdosSantos, author = {Camargo Ribeiro Marques dos Santos, Jo{\~a}o}, title = {Climate Change, new Metanarrative for Humanity: Climate Policy in the western Mediterranean, Doctoral dissertation, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies, Environmental Sciences, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal 2020, 243+73 pp., English. [repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/45283]}, abstract = {>Why is there not an adequate and efficient answer to climate change?< is a question that has been haunting millions of people around the world for the last decades, and that is growingly being made by all publics. Despite the scientific consensus on climate change, the necessary measures to deter this phenomenon are still far from the speed and range necessary to effectively address it (when there are any measures at all). Metanarratives are the grand histories that humankind tells itself to guide its practices and actions. They either work towards solving this civilisational crisis or to stop any effective solutions. The current metanarrative of globalised capitalist positivism is one of the main obstacles to stopping the climate crisis, but there is a conflict of metanarratives in the world today, and new possibilities are coming into existence. Potential future metanarratives for a different climate will either be survival of the fittest or civilising tools when human civilisation is in its most dangerous moment. The current metanarrative underpins capitalist dominance and is perpetuated through capitalist ideology and hegemony, locking humanity into a path of irreversible climate change. The unavoidable systematic change needed to effectively tackle climate change will go as deep as the social construction of what >human nature< is and what relations humans have to each other and the environment. Through an adaptation of Michael Burawoy's extended case method a methodology has been developed to evaluate the appearance of a new climate change metanarrative articulated with social justice, a climate justice potential metanarrative. A historical study on the evolution of public policy and climate policy in particular for three countries in the western mediterranean - Portugal, Spain and Morocco - was conducted. A revision of information about each of the countries, focusing on the evolution of climate and future scenarios, as well as social, economical, political and industrial tendencies, was done. There were 1107 interviews conducted for this thesis, 46 of which were face-to-face and structured. A methodological tool was developed to quantify the difference between really existing climate policy and climate action that would achieve the affirmed goals of stopping climate collapse on the three countries. Over the course of three years post-Paris Agreement enquiries were conducted in Portugal (in the ClimAdaPT.local project), in Spain and Morocco, focusing on national and local politicians, academia, social movements and private enterprises. From believing into climate change until supporting effective climate policies, there is a long path where world views, political affiliation and ideology, cultural values, perception of risks, experiencing climate change, notions of international and social justice, attribution of responsibilities and public participation play a very important role. The inquiries revealed that many personal and collective blocks are determinant in the path into reaching policies that effectively respond to the climate crisis, and that shifting world views and experiences that affect this path will be tested in the coming years. This is a qualitative expression of the current metanarrative of globalised capitalist positivism and the political clashes of the present moment open the door to new metanarratives, including a potential metanarrative of climate justice. Together with other researchers 'climate policy gap' graphics were developed for Portugal, Spain and Morocco to help reveal this divide and quantify the under-reaction between diagnosis and action, through layers of political indecision, miscommunication, insufficient action and the power of the fossil fuels industries. The climate policy gaps for the three nations revealed overshoots on even the most ambitious levels of emissions reductions pledged when compared to trajectories compatible with 1.5ºC or 2ºC limits. This research suggests that there is a built-in feature of under-reaction in climate policy, which staves off any emission pathways compatible with stopping a temperature rise above 1.5ºC by 2100. The climate policy gap is a political and methodological tool that reveals systemic shortcomings of climate action, its visibility identifies benchmarks and sectors that should be activated to close these gaps in response to the growing popular demands for climate justice and it quantifies the gap between a metanarrative of globalised capitalist positivism and what is necessary to prevent reaching even the Paris Agreement's targets. 2018 and 2019 saw the emergence of a much stronger climate justice movement. The three most relevant components of this movement - Blockadia, Youth Climate Strikes (Fridays for Future) and Extinction Rebellion - have combined efforts in a global call for civil disobedience and insurgency on political lines that respond to the climate sci ence that calls for a 50\% greenhouse gas global cuts by 2030. They have put in the for paigns such as Climate Jobs are creating political programs for a social revolution in line with German Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin's idea of revolution as the emergency break when history moves in a catastrophic direction. An early critic of the dangers posed by the threats of progress and technological development led by capitalism, Benjamin proposed an alternative view of revolution: it is not inevitable or a natural result of the contradiction between productive forces and productive relations, but rather an interruption of an historical evolution that is leading to catastrophe. These movements and programs are not enough for the emergence of a new climate justice potential metanarrative, although they are necessary conditions for it. In conclusion, there are signs of the emergence of a climate justice potential metanarrative, with a push for the creation of new institutions, adaptation of old ones, public perception of the dimension of the problem of climate change and effective legislative response to it. Some of the most expressive characteristics of this potential metanarrative were outlined: a human awakening full of impetus for social reordering; a redistribution of power, wellbeing and cooperation; a new notion of prosperity inside natural limits and just resource redistribution; reconnection of knowledges and sciences; the need for a public and participatory science to address human's and earth's needs; the teleology of humanity's collective survival; understanding and respecting life system's cycles, favouring life's diversity as an efficient tool against the current increase in entropy in the ecosphere; acknowledging and integrating the care economy into daily life, with the corresponsibilization of men and women for care and maintenance activities; recovering indigenous people's knowledge of biomimicry as a collective tool, promoting human beneficial effects on life cycles and ecosystems; understanding capitalist production's incompatibility with basic life system's principles. A new potential metanarrative for climate change is a historical novelty, but only such a novel Grand History can give humanity a chance to overcome the biggest threat it has ever faced.}, language = {en} } @book{Cambiareessere, author = {Cambiare essere,}, title = {Periodico Culturale del Centro Studi >Erich Fromm<, Napoli, No. 89 (Februario 2021), pp. 1-32. [ISSN 2284-3027] [core.ac.uk/download/534180017.pdf]}, language = {it} } @article{Cantor, author = {Cantor, Chris}, title = {Letter across the Pacific - 8th letter in a series}, series = {Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1999), pp. 5-7. [Online ISSN 2151-2396] [doi.org/10.1027//0227-5910.20.1.5]}, journal = {Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1999), pp. 5-7. [Online ISSN 2151-2396] [doi.org/10.1027//0227-5910.20.1.5]}, abstract = {Responds to a letter by Lanny Berman. The author agrees with Berman that the >Sex, Lies and Videotape< Clinton show is yet another superb soap opera from the USA. Berman mentioned that perfectionistic, high-achieving males may be at risk of suicide in the context of shame, when their goals are frustrated, and asked if it was a reasonable example of blocked escape. The author thinks it is a common error in understanding the concept of blocked escape to assume that we are talking about depression having an adaptive element in the current world. Berman also mentions >freedom and choice are pathways towards survival. But wasn't it Erich Fromm who posited that for some, just the opposite is true?< This issue concerns the author because in a well-functioning society, adolescents must learn certain skills from more experienced individuals. Berman's final question is, >Should we develop better models to enforce working collaborations when they might not occur voluntarily?< Certainly we should upgrade our interaction skills so that patients are voluntarily more inclined to concur with our advice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)}, language = {en} } @misc{Bauchan, author = {Bauchan, Philip William}, title = {A Social Ontological Account of Alienation and Its Place in the History of Alienation TheoryHistory of Alienation Theory, Doctoral dissertation, Philosophy, Faculty of the Graduate School, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States 2023, 241+9 pp., English. [ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/4008]}, abstract = {Alienation is a sociological term that has found itself severely out of favor as an analytical concept due to what are perceived as inextricable theoretical shortcomings despite having once enjoyed a time when it was taken to be essential for a robust and critical analysis of society. This dissertation looks to contribute to a revitalization of alienation theory by offering an understanding of alienation that is grounded in the framework of social ontology as forwarded in the works of John Searle. This social ontological account conceives of alienation as a fallout fact that arises when there is a performative contradiction between the enactment of a deontic power and the collective recognition of the status function that made possible that self-same deontic power in the first place. Framing alienation in this way provides the means for resolving those central aporias that have otherwise stymied its more widespread usage, namely, the question of alienation theory's fundamental unity, the division between objective and subjective approaches, and the term's normative status. The second half of the project is then dedicated to a critical engagement between the social ontological account and the long and diverse history of alienation theory beginning with its pre-philosophical uses and continuing into its philosophical appropriation in the 19th Century, its golden era in the mid-20th Century, and finally its place in second- and third-wave Critical Theory.}, language = {en} } @book{Baum, author = {Baum, Gerhart}, title = {Rettet die Grundrechte! B{\"u}rgerfreiheit contra Sicherheitswahn - Eine Streitschrift, K{\"o}ln (Kiepenheuer und Witsch), 2009, 196 pp.}, language = {de} } @book{BaumHirsch, author = {Baum, Gerhart and Hirsch, Burkhard}, title = {Der Baum und der Hirsch. Deutschland von seiner liberalen Seite. In Zusammenarbeit mit Gabriela Herpell und Thomas B{\"a}rnthaler, Berlin (Propyl{\"a}en - Ullstein), 2016, 271 pp.}, language = {de} } @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{Belmes, author = {Belmes, Paula Muriel}, title = {Review Fromm. E.: Obreros y empleados en v{\´i}speras del Tercer Reich. Un an{\´a}lisis psicol{\´o}gico-social}, series = {Archivos de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda, No. 2 (2013), pp. 182-184. [Online ISSN 2683-9601] [archivosrevista.com.ar/numeros/index.php/archivos/article/view/174/168]}, journal = {Archivos de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda, No. 2 (2013), pp. 182-184. [Online ISSN 2683-9601] [archivosrevista.com.ar/numeros/index.php/archivos/article/view/174/168]}, language = {es} } @article{Bennett, author = {Bennett, Christopher}, title = {Erich Fromm on Love and Union: Mysticism and Romanticism about Sexual Relations, in: Andr{\´e} Grahle, Natasha McKeever and Joe Saunders (Eds.): Philosophy of Love in the Past, Present, and Future, New York NY (Routledge) 2022, pp. 73-86. [doi.org/10.4324/9781003014331-7]}, abstract = {According to Erich Fromm, sex has a role in love because it involves knowledge that surpasses linguistic communication. He explicitly connects this search with a form of mysticism. I acknowledge this turn to mysticism as one strand in thinking about the significance of expressive behaviour; however, the author seeks to show that Fromm's insight can be captured in terms ultimately less mysterious than the appeal to the mystical. In place of the argument derived from Fromm, and which the author calls Mysticism about Sexual Relations, an alternative is proposed by the author that he calls Romanticism about Sexual Relations: it sees sexual behaviour as a set of expressive gestures symbolising the salient features of a situation on the model of a Romantic view of artworks.}, language = {en} } @article{Bennett, author = {Bennett, Elizabeth A.}, title = {Alienation and Its Consequence: An Exploration of Marxism, >Hikikomori<, and Authenticity via Relational Connection}, series = {The Humanistic Psychologist, Vol. 48, No. 3 (2020), pp. 257-270. [Online ISSN 1547-3333] [doi.org/10.1037/hum0000153]}, journal = {The Humanistic Psychologist, Vol. 48, No. 3 (2020), pp. 257-270. [Online ISSN 1547-3333] [doi.org/10.1037/hum0000153]}, abstract = {Alienation is a concept that has long captivated psychologists and philosophers, although it lacks a common definition. In the present article, I am interested in first briefly exploring a theoretical framework of alienation in the writings of Marx, which carries into conceptualizations by Fromm and Laing. This exploration is both for the purpose of cultivating a more specific definition of alienation as well as in an effort to consider broader implications of alienation. Next, I briefly explore these thinkers alongside the role of alienation in the context of work. I then consider the Japanese concept of >hikikomori< as an example of a profoundly debilitating response to recognizing one's own alienation from the self, largely in response to the modern Japanese workplace. Lastly, I attempt to synthesize thinking around what kind of existence might be possible in >recovery< from alienation, as well as whether such a recovery is even possible in our culture. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)}, language = {en} }