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.