TY - JOUR A1 - Thorpe, Charles T1 - The Tyranny of Negative Freedom JF - Necroculture, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2016, pp. 205-259. [Online ISBN 978-1-137-58303-1] [doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58303-1_5] N2 - Negative freedom was the ideological rallying call of the bourgeoisie’s historically progressive period, when it overthrew the economic and political power of the landed aristocracy and gave birth to modern liberalism. Liberal philosophers asserted the moral primacy and autonomy of the individual and advocated the market and representative democracy as forms of association that allowed freedom from externally imposed authority. Only those relations of obligation and authority entered into voluntarily by the individual could have legitimacy. Y1 - 2016 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thorpe, Charles T1 - The Necroculture of Capitalism [application of Fromm's theories to art] JF - Necroculture, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2016, pp. 1-52. [Online ISBN 978-1-137-58303-1] [doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58303-1_1] N2 - In the television series >The Walking Dead<, survivors of an apocalypse take shelter in a prison, while zombies circle the fences looking for a way in. The zombies are shadows cast by a past to which the survivors cannot return but which they cannot escape. The living dead represent the past that, as Karl Marx wrote, >weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.< The prison that holds us today is what right-wing philosopher Francis Fukuyama called >the end of history,< a predicament in which >we cannot picture to ourselves a world that is essentially different from the present one, and at the same time better.< Y1 - 2016 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thorpe, Charles T1 - Review Lauren Langman and George Lundskow: God, Guns, Gold and Glory: American Character and its Discontents. JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 21 / 2017, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 135-137. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e21/2017j Y1 - 2017 VL - e21/2017j ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thorpe, Charles T1 - Necroculture: Fromm’s Theory of Necrophilia and Contemporary Cultural Nightmares JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 21 / 2017, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 37-47. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e21/2017d Y1 - 2017 VL - e21/2017d ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Thorpe, Charles T1 - Necroculture, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2016, 270 pp. Y1 - 2016 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thorpe, Charles T1 - Escape from Reflexivity: Fromm and Giddens on Individualism, Anxiety, and Authoritarianism JF - K. Durkin and J. Braune (Eds.), Erich Fromm's Critical Theory. Hope, Humanism, and the Future, New York (Bloomsbury) 2020, pp. 194-215. Y1 - 2020 ER -