TY - JOUR A1 - Durkin, Kieran T1 - Living life as an art: Erich Fromm and Michel Foucault on the art of existence in late capitalism - https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000400 JF - The Humanist Psychologist (American Psychological Association - APA), Vol. 53 (2025), pp. 598-614. N2 - 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) Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Durkin, Kieran T1 - Erich Fromm and Marxism: A Re-appraisal JF - 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. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Durkin, Kieran T1 - Erich Fromm and the Revolution of Hope JF - The International Marxist-Humanist Journal (https://imhojournal.org/) 2020. Y1 - 2020 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Durkin, Kieran T1 - Mapping Fromm's Critical Theory JF - K. Durkin and J. Braune (Eds.), Erich Fromm's Critical Theory. Hope, Humanism, and the Future, New York (Bloomsbury) 2020, pp. 1-19. Y1 - 2020 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Durkin, Kieran T1 - Erich Fromm and Theodor W. Adorno Reconsidered: A Case Study in Intellectual History JF - New German Critique 136, Vol. 46, No. 1, February 2019, pp. 103-126. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Durkin, Kieran T1 - The Art of Living and the Dialectics of Social Transformation JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 024-032. N2 - 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. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e23/2019b Y1 - 2019 VL - e23/2019b ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Durkin, Kieran T1 - Erich Fromm: Studies in Social Character JF - 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]. Y1 - 2015 ER -