TY - JOUR A1 - Sakurai, Takamichi T1 - Contemporary Fascist Chauvinism in Terms of Erich Fromm’s Theory of Alienation. A Theoretical Suggestion for an Analysis of Contemporary Society (in Japanese) JF - Journal Jōkyō, Vol. 5 (No. 6, 2017), pp. 115-126. Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Sakurai, Takamichi T1 - Political Theories of Narcissism: Towards Self-Reflection on Knowl- edge and Politics from the Psychoanalytic Perspectives of Erich Fromm and Fujita Shōzō, Münster (LIT Verlag), 2018. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sakurai, Takamichi T1 - A Frommian perspective on the socio-psychological structure of post-fascism in liberal democracies JF - Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, published online 19 April 2020. N2 - My research explores Erich Fromm’s social theories of narcissism, alienation and authoritarianism for the purpose of linking those theories together, thereby analysing current populist phenomena as an extension of a fascist development in terms of Enzo Traverso’s conception of post-fascism. In my view, Fromm’s critical social theory of narcissism, which pertains to his two other theories, has great potential to unravel current political issues in liberal democracies that are generally tackled in terms of populism. Through a demonstration of the theoretical scope of Fromm’s social theory, which sheds light on pathological social and political phenomena in historical continuity, I argue that the primary tasks of Critical Theory in Frommian terms are to divulge the sources of fascist orientations in seemingly democratic practice and to offer appropriate remedies for these difficulties. In this light, I conclude that in terms of a Frommian social theory of narcissism, fascist types of politics thrive even in advanced liberal-democratic countries, taking the form of authoritarian populism, particularly where society rests on a narcissistic character structure intertwined with an authoritarian orientation. Y1 - 2020 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Sakurai, Takamichi T1 - Political Theory and Narcissism. Towards the Self. Reflection•of Knowledge and Politics through Focusing on the Psychoanalyltic Perspectives of Erich Fromm and Shözö Fujita. Dissertation Political Theory, University of Heidelberg, 2014, 292 pp. Y1 - 2014 ER -