Reclaiming the Sane Society : : Essays on Erich Fromm’s Thought / / edited by Miri Seyed Javad, Robert Lake, Tricia M. Kress.

• Superior document: Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research
• HerausgeberIn: Seyed Javad, Miri.; Lake, Robert.; Kress, Tricia M.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed. 2014.
• Language: English
• Series: Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

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.