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Die verschiedenen theoretischen Programme, die Erich FROMM im Verlauf seiner Werkgeschichte verfolgt hat (Freudo-Marxismus, analytische Sozialpsychologie, Neo-Psychoanalyse, humanistischer Sozialismus) werden zusammenfassend dargestellt und auf eine gemeinsame Leitidee in Form einer impliziten >Theorie des Subjekts< zurückzuführen versucht. Grundsätzliche Probleme subjekttheoretischer Ansätze werden in diesem Zusammenhang diskutiert. – Aus dem Inhaltsverzeichnis: (1) Zur Konzeptualisierung subjekttheoretischer Problemlagen in humanistischer Absicht. (2) Vom Gottesbegriff zur Menschennatur. Der Ursprung des FROMMschen Humanismus im jüdischen Gesetz. (3) Biologistische Werturteile im Menschenbild der Psychoanalyse. (4) Die Kontroverse um den heuristischen Wert der Freudschen Triebtheorie respektive der Metapsychologie. (5) Die begriffliche Struktur der analytischen Sozialpsychologie. (6) Konstruktionsprinzip und Begründungsprobleme der FROMMschen Anthropologie. (7) Schwerefeld >Materie< und Schwerefeld >Menschennatur< im Kontext der FROMMschen Marxrezeption. (8) Zum normativen Problemüberhang kritischer Subjekttheorien. Überlegungen im Hinblick auf das Verhältnis von Tugendethik und normativer Ethik.
>Social Criticism and Helping People to Cope with the Problems of Life<: To mark the occasion of the publication of the first volume of Fromm's >Posthumous Writings< bearing the title >From Having to Being< (German edition: Vom Haben zum Sein published by Beltz, 1989), this report first sketches the background behind the non-academic reception of Fromm in connection with the esoteric wave. Fromm's decision to delay publication of the manuscript is then tied to misgivings towards positive formulations coming from the side of the Critical Theory. These misgivings are reconstructed in the form of four charges of a quite serious nature that are directed by the critical social sciences against any explicit formulation of actional perspectives; this is followed up by a critical consideration of the case for and against these misgivings. The author concludes that positive formulations are indeed an indispensable part of all political action; furthermore, that criticisms of such positive formulations can be met by insisting that they be tied to humane forms of communication. In this connection, the idea of biophilia is interpreted as an attempt to describe the psychological prerequisites for the emergence of such forms of communication. Thus a critical stance is adopted against tendencies on the part of supporters of the Critical Theory to elevate the injunction against image-making into an absolute. On the other hand, reference is once again made to the esoteric wave pursuing interpretive patterns geared to other than day-today realities – patterns that therefore necessarily fail to acknowledge any critical authority. To this it is objected that individual attempts to free oneself from purely affective quarters by one's own efforts are just as doomed to failure. This conclusion is drawn from the need for interpretation to which all modes of meditative experience are subject. In the author's opinion, interpretive patterns such as these do not correspond to Fromm's intention either, this having been to build bridges between rationality and emotional life instead of playing the one off against the other.