How to Become a Forgotten Intellectual: Intellectual Movements and the Rise and Fall of Erich Fromm

  • Most reputation studies focus on canonized intellectuals, scholars, and artists. With few exceptions, there has been little detailed examination of the sociological dynamics involved in exclusion. Examined here are the ideas and reputation history of the German psychoanalyst and sociologist Erich FROMM, expanding the repu-tation model outlined by Michele Lamont in >How to Become a Dominant French Intellectual: The Case of Jacques Derrida.< The example of Erich FROMM provides support for a modified version of Lamont's model as well as a level analysis framework. FROMM was a prestigious intellectual in sociology, psychoanalysis, and US intellectual life in the 1940s and 1950s, but since has gone out fashion. Similar macro-, organizational, and microfactors explain both FROMM's decline and Derrida's rise to status after 1965. Emphasis is on the importance of symbolic boundaries within and between psychoanalysis, Marxism, and sociology as factors that both create and damage intellectual reputations.

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Author:Neil McLaughlin
Parent Title (English):Sociological Forum, Vol. 13 (No. 2, 1998), pp. 215-246. [Cf. also Mclaughlin, N., 1995] .
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1998
Release Date:2014/01/28
Format:PDF-scan to download
IdNo:McLaughlin_N_1998a
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
Licence (German):
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