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.

  • 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.

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Author:Kieran Durkin
Document Type:Dissertations
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2013
Release Date:2014/01/28
Format:PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage
IdNo:Durkin_K_2013
Serial Number:unpublished version / unveröffentlichte Fassung
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Dissertations / Dissertationen
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Dissertations / Dissertationen
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