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Reclaiming the Sane Society

Essays on Erich Fromm’s Thought

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Seyed Javad Miri

    1. Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran

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  2. Robert Lake

    1. Georgia Southern University, USA

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  3. Tricia M. Kress

    1. The University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. The Social Psychology of Erich Fromm

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. On the Psychology and Libertarian Socialism of Erich Fromm

      • Rodolfo Leyva
      Pages 3-15

    3. Fromm’s Dialectic of Freedom and the Praxis of Being

      • Vicki Dagostino, Robert Lake
      Pages 17-30

    4. Humanism and Sociological Imagination in a Frommesque Perspective

      • Seyed Javad Miri
      Pages 31-35

    5. Normative Humanism as Redemptive Critique

      • Michael J. Thompson
      Pages 37-58

    6. Erich Fromm’s Socialist Program and Prophetic Messianism, in Two Parts

      • Nick Braune, Joan Braune
      Pages 59-91

  3. Fromm and Religion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Marx and Religion

      • Erich Fromm
      Pages 95-99

    3. What is Spirituality?

      • Richard Curtis
      Pages 101-115

    4. Erich Fromm’s Social-Psychological Theory of Religion

      • Rudolf Siebert
      Pages 117-136

    5. Erich Fromm and Thomas Merton

      • Joan Braune
      Pages 137-146

    6. Fromm’s Notion of the Prophet and Priest

      • Dustin J. Byrd
      Pages 147-160

  4. Applying and Extending Fromm’s Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 162-162
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    2. The Relevance of Fromm’s Concept of the Distorted Personality

      • Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker
      Pages 163-185

    3. Neoliberalism as Social Necrophilia

      • Panayota Gounari
      Pages 187-201

    4. Hope—Faith—Fortitude → Praxis

      • Tricia M. Kress, Patricia M. Patrissy
      Pages 203-214

    5. Revisiting Beyond the Chains of Illusion

      • Irene Rosenberg Javors
      Pages 215-219

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 221-224
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran

    Seyed Javad Miri

  • Georgia Southern University, USA

    Robert Lake

  • The University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

    Tricia M. Kress

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