TY - JOUR A1 - Burston, Daniel T1 - Critical Theory, Left-Wing Authoritarianism, and Anti-Semitism JF - Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis. From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique, London and New York (Routledge) 2022, pp. 158-184. Y1 - 2022 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burston, Daniel T1 - Authority, Tradition and the Postmodern University JF - Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, Vol. 3 (No. 5) 2018, pp. 90-99. N2 - The postmodern university is experiencing a legitimation crisis because of a deepening and corrosive mistrust of all forms of authority; even those that are intended to benefit students by enabling them to >think critically<, or to deepen and improve their knowledge and skills. Some of the problem is rooted in prevailing cultural and economic trends, but others inhere in the nature of postmodernism itself; especially the postmodern claim that truth itself is non-existent or simply unattainable or unavailable, even at the best of times. Unlike earlier generations of critical theorists, who believed that >the truth shall make you free<, postmodern theorists, following Nietzsche, claim that the very idea of truth is moot, if not entirely obsolete. But absent a commitment to a search for truth, the entire structure of the university itself begins to crumble. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burston, Daniel T1 - Authority, Effectiveness and Teaching In the Postmodern University: A Frommian Perspective JF - Philosophy in the Contemporary World 17:2 (Fall 2010). N2 - The decline of the Liberal Arts in the 21st century is rooted in late 20th century trends, including grade inflation, the decline of rational authority, the rise of anonymous authority, and consumerism, which abets the tendency to elevate the pursuit of students’ >self-esteem< above scholarly rigor. While the Left and the Right are apt to blame their ideological opponents, both share some responsibility for this state of af-fairs, which can only be remedied if they own up to their own erroneous oversights, and agree to work together. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burston, Daniel T1 - Authority, Charisma and Analytic Education. An Essay in Honor of Paul Roazen Pittsburgh (Typescript) 22 pp. Y1 - 1995 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burston, Daniel T1 - Auf den Spuren Freuds: Fromm und Marcuse JF - M. Kessler and R. Funk (Eds.), Erich Fromm und die Frankfurter Schule. Akten des internationalen, interdisziplinären Symposions Stuttgart-Hohenheim vom 31. 5. bis 2. 6. 1991, Tübingen (Francke Verlag) 1992, pp. 61-68. Y1 - 1992 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burston, Daniel T1 - A Very Freudian Affair: Erich Fromm, Peter Swales and the Future of Psychoanalytic Historiography. Paper to be published 2007, 13 p. Y1 - 2007 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burston, Daniel T1 - A Profile of Erich Fromm JF - Social Science and Modern Society, News Brunswick (Transaction), Vol. 28 (No. 4, 1991), pp. 84-89. N2 - A biography of German psychoanalyst Erich FROMM, beginning with the influence of an intensive Jewish religious education, which was an admixture of philosophy, mysticism, socialism, psychoanalysis, and traditional rabbinical wisdom. It is argued that this early training is evidenced in FROMM's assertion that character can change throughout life, and that prevailing social character has a profound impact on the developing individual, regardless of family idiosyncracies or misfortunes. FROMM typified a Jewish synthesis of rationalism, mysticism, and love of tradition, combined with a prophetic element of radical protest. Also discussed are his progression through religious and sociological doctoral studies and analytic training from Freud loyalists. It is contended that FROMM emerged from the turbulent 1930s and 1940s to become one of the most prolific psychoanalytic authors of the twentieth century, and that his impact on the humanities and social sciences 1950-1970s is unparalleled. Alleged weaknesses in FROMM's work that suggest drawbacks for the clinician are discussed, including the complexities created by his deliberate policy of making minimal use of case histories and clinical vignettes, his tendency toward overstatement, inconsistency in his emphasis on the cultural and economic determinants of mental disturbance, and his purported reversion to a pre-Freudian psychology. Y1 - 1991 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burston, Daniel T1 - >The Passion of Christ.< A Critical and Historical Perspective JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 09 / 2005, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 24-30. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e09/2005d Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burston, Daniel T1 - >Man For Himself<: A New Introduction for Transactions Publishers, 1990, 20 pp. (Typescript) Y1 - 1990 ER -