TY - JOUR A1 - Kozlarek, Oliver T1 - Humanismus als Kritik, Erich Fromms >Homo negans< und die schöpferische Liebe in der humanistischen Psychologie JF - Straub, J. (Ed.), Der sich selbst verwirklichende Mensch: Über den Humanismus der Humanistischen Psychologie, Bielefeld (Transcript Verlag) 2012, pp. 153-178. Y1 - 2012 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kozlarek, Oliver T1 - From the humanism of critical theory to critical humanism JF - European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 24, No. 2 (2021), pp. 246-263. [Online ISSN 1461-7137] [doi.org/10.1177/1368431020960958] N2 - Following Max Horkheimer, I will first attempt to reconstruct an anthropology that essentially wants to be understood as critical social research. I will then pursue the question of humanism in critical theory. In doing so, I want to show that a reference to a normatively substantive humanism does actually exist in critical theory. On the other hand, I want to show that this humanism is anything but unambiguously and systematically formulated but has been reflected and articulated differently by different representatives of critical theory. The two examples I will refer to here are Theodor W. Adorno and Erich Fromm. I will define Adorno’s humanism as ‘dialectical humanism’, whereas Fromm’s humanism could be described as ‘emphatic humanism’. My reading, however, attempts to interrogate the two positions as to their complementarity. Not ‘Adorno or Fromm’, but ‘Adorno and Fromm’ is the motto that guides me. Finally, I will relate this complementary reading of both approaches in such a way that the possibility of a ‘Critical Humanism’ can be derived from it, which above all also wants to be understood as a sociological research program. Y1 - 2021 ER -