L'equilibrio della speranza
(1978)
L'ipoteca nucleare
(1978)
Uscire dalla violenza
(1978)
Frigidità
(1978)
Da Freud to Fromm
(1975)
The single most valuable contribution of the Frankfurt School is >critical theory<. Typical and peculiar to this group was that the synthesis of the contributions of so many great minds (Adorno, Horkheimer, Habermas, Mitscherlich, Lukács, Korsch, Reich, FROMM, Marcuse, and even Freud) was not to be found in elaborations of the individual masters in their life time, but was found in the radical subjectivity of the generation that followed them. The more problematic aspects of the Frankfurt heritage are characterized by the contemporary work of Negt in his treatment of the relationship between >operational subjectivity< and social science. The thesis of social subjectivity in all its complex articulation continues to elude integration with method and analysis.
The Frankfurt school is inferior to mainline Marxism because it confines itself to theorizing instead of engendering political action. This failure was made evident by the incapacity to inspire any sort of anti-Nazi movement. Nevertheless, the school has made important theoretical contributions in the areas of human personality and consciousness formation. In pedagogy, its notable contribution has been E. FROMM's Authoritarian Personality, where it is argued that the ultimate origins of racial and economic prejudices are rooted in the authoritarian personality, ie, in the submission of authority and authoritarianism toward one's inferiors. J. Habermas, in his study of the political attitudes of German students (Studenten und Poiltik. Eine sociologische Untersuchung zum politischen Bewusstsein Frankfurter Studenten, Students and Politics. A Sociological Examination of the Political Consciousness of Frankfurt Students, Neuwied und Berlin, 1961) contended that political participation is a functional element of democratic society. O. Negt advocated new syndicalist organizations to promote new models of workers' education which would supercede the archaic methods of action and class struggle.
Psicologia per non psicologi
(1974)
Psicologia per non psicologi
(1974)
Psicologia per non psicologi
(1974)
Alternative per l’uomo
(1974)
La validità del pensiero di E. Fromm per l'uomo contemporaneo Piombino 1974, 59 pp. (Typoscript).
(1974)
L’uomo seconde Marx
(1973)
La disumanizzazione dell'anomia e dell'alienazione: un problema di ideologia della sociologia
(1973)
An introduction to the Italian translation of Max Horkheimer's AUTORITAT UND FAMILIE (Authority and the Family), to be published by UTET. The work originally appeared in 1936 in Paris where the institute for Soc Res of Frankfurt had found refuge in 1933 before being transferred to the United States. Some comments on the Instit's more important researchers, eg, E. FROMM, H. Marcuse, and M. Horkheimer himself are offered. It is stated that Horkheimer saw the family as a mechanism for reproducing the authoritarian character via the apparently >natural< power of the father and the hierarchic structure of the family. Thus the concept that hierarchy was necessary was perpetuated in the children. Horkheimer's book sought to support these theoretical propositions with a series of empiric reseraches utilizing American research methods. However, these methods, it is pointed out, ignoring economic, political and historical dimensions in favor of psychological ones, tended to transform all social problems into problems of interpersonal adaptation. While the theoretical efforts of the Frankfurt school remain valid, the specific empiric studies suffer from an opposition in principle between positivism and critical reflection. But AUTHORITY AND THE FAMILY, by attempting integrated research including the psychological as well as the structural level, points the way toward combining rigorous scientific research with political orientation.
Jung e la schizophrenia
(1973)
L’emozione guidata
(1973)
Comportamento e stress
(1971)
Introduzione
(1971)
L’ideale dell’uomo di Marx
(1971)
L’umanesimo di Marx oggi
(1971)
La triplice rivoluzione
(1971)
Socialismo e umanesimo
(1971)
Umanesimo socialista?
(1971)
Umanesimo e dialettica
(1971)
Uomo e libertà
(1971)
L’uomo e la filosofia
(1971)
Il socialismo è un umanesimo
(1971)
La legalità socialista
(1971)