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 - Review Friedman, L. J., The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet JF - American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 76 (No. 2, 2016), pp. 206-209. Y1 - 2016 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 - GEN A1 - Durkin, Kieran T1 - The radical humanism of Erich Fromm: A re-appropriation. Dissertation at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow Typescript May 2013, 216 pp. N2 - This thesis attempts to advance the underappreciated thought of Erich Fromm as both a crucial contribution to twentieth century intellectual history and a potentially pivotal point from which to transcend current theoretical impasses. In particular, I argue that Fromm's radical humanism can participate in the rejuvenation of contemporary social theory, which is still largely constrained by the dual reductionism of positivism and poststructuralism, and that a return to it will encourage renewed theorising of, and empirical engagement with, the connections that obtain between the >psychological< and the >social<, the >essential< and the >constructed<, and the >is< and the >ought<. I try to show that Fromm's qualified essentialism and ethical normativism are sensible, viable, and desirable, and that they, coupled with his analytic social psychology, which is based on his underlying humanism and elaborated through a unique fusion of Marx and Freud, provide the basis for the development of practical strategies to realise humanism in the world. Perhaps above all, I try to show that there is a deceptive complexity and sophistication to Fromm's ideas, which are all too often taken as simple and naive. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Durkin, Kieran T1 - Review Braune, J.: Erich Fromm’s Revolutionary Hope: Prophetic Messianism as a Critical Theory of the Future; Review Miri, S. J., Lake, R., and Kress, T. M. (Eds): Reclaiming the Sane Society: Essays on Erich Fromm’s Thought JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 19 / 2015, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 69-72. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e18/2015i Y1 - 2015 VL - e18/2015i 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 - TY - GEN A1 - Durkin, Kieran T1 - The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2014, 250 pp. Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Durkin, Kieran T1 - Review Braune, J., Erich Fromm’s Revolutionary Hope, and Miri, S. J. et al. (Eds.), Reclaiming the Sane Society JF - Marx and Philosophy – Review of Books, 23. November 2014, http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2014/1397 Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Durkin, Kieran T1 - Review McLaughlin, N., Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology JF - Sociology, Vol. 57 (No. 1, 2023), pp. 253–259. Y1 - 2023 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 -