Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology

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Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology
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Acknowledgments
Series Editors’ Preface
Introduction: Erich Fromm’s Global Public Sociology
	What is public sociology and why does it matter?
	Was Fromm really a sociologist?
	The sociological importance of books for social movements: Fromm’s paperback public sociology
	Public sociology and celebrity intellectuals
1 Sociology in a World at War: Escape from Freedom
	The social psychology of fascism
	Theoretical core: an existentialist revision of psychoanalysis
	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Authoritarianism
	The reception of Escape from Freedom
	Escapes reformulated: professional historical sociology
	Empirical and historical limitations
	Reframing Fromm’s sociology of emotions and nationalism
	A micro-foundation for political sociology
	The current crisis and public sociology
2 How Optimal Marginality Created a Public Sociologist
	Youth on the margins of German capitalism
	A prophetic empirical social psychology, Jewish psychoanalysis and utopian socialism
	Three key circles: Frankfurt scholar, neo-Freudianism, and the national character tradition
	Critical theory, neo-Freudianism, and theorizing among the anthropologists
	The critical theorists
	Adorno replaces Fromm
	The neo-Freudian intellectual movement
	Fromm and Horney’s collaboration
	Margaret Mead and the culture and personality school
	A general theory of the public sociologist
3 The Cold War, Conformity, and the 1960s
	Riesman meets Fromm: from therapist to mentor
	Man for Himself (1947) and the critique of conformity
	Capitalism and the Reformation
	American capitalism and the marketing character
	The Lonely Crowd revisited
	The Sane Society (1955) and the seeds of the 1960s
	Conclusion: Fromm’s influence on professional Cold War/1960s-era sociology
4 How Fromm Became a Forgotten Public Sociologist
	The Fromm–Marcuse debate
	Dissent and the anti-Stalinist left
	Marcuse’s critique of Fromm: conformist revisionist?
	Fromm’s fall from intellectual grace
	A public sociologist of love and intimacy
	Fromm’s decline consolidated
	The trouble with fame and the social construction of Marcuse as a left icon
	The sociological reception of the Fromm–Marcuse debate in the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s
5 Fromm’s Political Activism in the 1960s
	Instrumental intimacy, David Riesman, and the fight against nuclear war
	Beyond militarism and ideology: May Man Prevail?
	How Fromm become a peace activist
	Socialist public intellectual: Marx’s Concept of Man
	Fromm’s socialist activism in the 1960s
	A book for a political campaign: The Revolution of Hope
	The double-edged sword of political engagement
	How activism sharpened Fromm’s intellectual vision
	Evaluating Fromm’s activism and policy sociology, both inside and outside the system
6 Studying Social Character and Theorizing Violence
	A sociology of knowledge perspective
	A neglected community study: Social Character in a Mexican Village
	Social character theory: habitus with depth psychology
	Results of the study
	Bourdieu’s theory of habitus
	A neglected community study
	Theorizing violence: beyond instincts and behaviours
	Why Freud, Lorenz, Skinner, and popular social psychology are wrong
	Is human destructiveness hard-wired?
	Varieties of aggression: theory and case studies on sadism and necrophilia
	Necrophilia and Hitler’s pathologies
	Restoring Fromm’s academic reputation
Conclusion: The Revival of a Global Public Sociologist
	The rediscovery and revival of Fromm’s global public sociology
	Reframing and reformulating Fromm’s insights
	Towards a psychosocial social science
	Lessons for public sociologists: Fromm and beyond
	Research on public sociologies
	Fromm’s global sociological legacy
Notes
References
Index
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