ISBN:
9789462096073
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXIV, 224 p, online resource)
Year of publication:
2014
Series Statement:
Imagination and Praxis, Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research
Series Statement:
Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Reclaiming the Sane Society: Essays on Erich Fromm's Thought
Keywords:
Civilization, Modern 21st century
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Humanism
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Education
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Education
Abstract:
Preliminary Material /Seyed Javad Miri , Robert Lake and Tricia M. Kress -- On the Psychology and Libertarian Socialism of Erich Fromm /Rodolfo Leyva -- Fromm’s Dialectic of Freedom and the Praxis of Being /Vicki Dagostino and Robert Lake -- Humanism and Sociological Imagination in a Frommesque Perspective /Seyed Javad Miri -- Normative Humanism as Redemptive Critique /Michael J. Thompson -- Erich Fromm’s Socialist Program and Prophetic Messianism, In Two Parts /Nick Braune and Joan Braune -- Marx and Religion /Erich Fromm -- What is Spirituality? /Richard Curtis -- Erich Fromm’s Social Psychological Theory of Religion /Rudolf Siebert -- Erich Fromm and Thomas Merton /Joan Braune -- Fromm’s Notion of the Prophet and the Priest /Dustin J. Byrd -- The Relevance of Fromm’s Concept of the Distorted Personality /Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker -- Neoliberalism as Social Necrophilia /Panayota Gounari -- Hope—Faith—Fortitude→ Praxis /Tricia M. Kress and Patricia M. Patrissy -- Revisiting Beyond the Chains of Illusion /Irene Rosenberg Javors -- Notes on Contributors /Seyed Javad Miri , Robert Lake and Tricia M. Kress.
Abstract:
“A valuable contribution to the renaissance of Frommian thought.” — The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books Erich Fromm’s body of work, written more than 50 years ago, was prophetic of the contemporary moment: Increasingly, global society is threatened by the many-headed monster of corporate greed, neo-liberalism, nihilism, extreme fundamentalist beliefs, and their resulting effects on the natural world and the lived lives of people. Fromm clearly warned us of the peril of the misuse of technology and the destructive nature of man’s perverse desire to possess, control and/or destroy. Through his theories of having vs. being, the importance of hope as active resistance, and his notion of freedom as the capacity to love self, and others, Fromm encouraged his readers to cultivate biophilic ways of being in the world that will counter and heal the impending necrophilic plunder of man’s hubris. This multi-authored volume sheds new light on Fromm’s forgotten role in the formation of contemporary thought through an engaging variety of reflexive and historical narratives from fields of sociology, clinical psychology, political science, critical theory of religion and education. Key concepts from his body of work are interpreted and expressed in ways that offer hopeful and humane alternatives to the present global conditions of despair, greed and depersonalization
Description / Table of Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; FOREWORD: Erich Fromm's social psychological approach and its relevance for today; FROMM'S THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES; The New View on Man and Society; The Relevance for Social Sciences; "DIRECT MEETING": FROMM'S WAY TO BE A SOCIAL SCIENTIST; A Personal Report; Face-to-Face Encounter; Letting Someone Sense: "This Is You"; An Exhilarating Experience; Encountering the Foreign; REFERENCES; PART I: THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF ERICH FROMM; 1. ON THE PSYCHOLOGY AND LIBERTARIAN SOCIALISM OF ERICH FROMM: Towards an Empirically Based Psychological Retrofit
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INTRODUCTIONBEYOND HOME-ECONOMICUS AND HOME-SEXUALIS; THE SANE SOCIETY; EMPIRICAL VINDICATION; SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE, CREATIVITY, AND DEMOCRACY; IMPLICATIONS FOR CONTEMPORARY NEOLIBERAL MODES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 2. FROMM'S DIALECTIC OF FREEDOM AND THE PRAXIS OF BEING; FROMM ON CAPITALISM AND ALIENATION; PRODUCTIVE LOVE; BEING AND POSITIVE FREEDOM; STEPS TOWARD BEING; THE PRAXIS OF BEING AND POSITIVE FREEDOM; REFERENCES; 3. HUMANISM AND SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATIONIN A FROMMESQUE PERSPECTIVE; INTRODUCTION; NORMATIVE HUMANISM AND THE QUESTION OF WELL-BEING; HUMANISM
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HUMANISTIC RELIGION VERSUS AUTHORITARIAN RELIGIONREFERENCES; 4. NORMATIVE HUMANISM AS REDEMPTIVE CRITIQUE: Knowledge and Judgment in Erich Fromm's Social Theory; INTRODUCTION; A CRISIS OF CRITIQUE AND JUDGMENT; FROMM'S NORMATIVE HUMANISM AND CRITICAL THEORY; CAN THERE BE OBJECTIVE VALUES?; THE FUTURE OF CRITICAL THEORY; REFERENCES; 5. ERICH FROMM'S SOCIALIST PROGRAM AND PROPHETIC MESSIANISM, IN TWO PARTS1; INTRODUCTION; PART I: FROMM'S PROGRAM AND MESSIANISM, IN THE CONTEXT OF HIS ORGANIZING BY NICK BRAUNE; "PROPHETIC MESSIANISM" -A LITERARY FLOURISH OR A CENTRAL CONCERN?
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PROPHETIC MESSIANISM: ITS REVOLUTIONARY (HUMANIST) JEWISH ROOTSII. PROPHETIC MESSIANISM: AN EXCURSUS AND FURTHER DEFENSE BY JOAN BRAUNE; ERICH FROMM'S CONCEPT OF HOPE; FROMM'S CONCEPT OF PROPHETIC MESSIANISM; REFERENCES; PART II: FROMM AND RELIGION; 6. MARX AND RELIGION1; 7. WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY?: Insights from Religious Studies and Humanistic Psychology; INTRODUCTORY THOUGHTS; THE DEFINTION; LOVE; RECONNECTING; SOME COMPLICATING FACTORS; GOING FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE; PRODUCTIVE VERSUS UNPRODUCTIVE; REFERENCES
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8. ERICH FROMM'S SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY OF RELIGION: Toward the X-Experience and the City of BeingINTRODUCTION1; INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT; AUTHORITARIAN AND REVOLUTIONARY PERSONALITIES; LIQUIDATION; RETURN; IRONY; HISTORICAL MATERIALISM; SPARKS OF THE ETERNAL; HISTORICAL IDEALISM; DAOISM, BUDDHISM, HINDUISM, AND SUFISM; SPARK OF THE SOUL; GOOD AND BAD RELIGION; THE MURDER OF CHRIST; FAITH IDEA; SYNTHESIS; REFERENCES; 9. ERICH FROMM AND THOMAS MERTON1: Biophilia, Necrophilia, and Messianism; ABSTRACT; TWO TYPES OF MESSIANISM; ABOUT THE PAMPHLET, WAR WITHIN MAN; PROGRESS OR RETURN?
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MERTON AND FROMM
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10.1007/978-94-6209-607-3
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