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Marcuse, Fromm and Dunayevskaya: A New Window on Critical Theory
During the years 1954 to 1978, the Marxist-Humanist and feminist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya corresponded separately but intensively with two noted members of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm. The correspondence covered dialectical social theory, socialist humanism, the structure … Continue reading
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Modes of Authority and the Crisis of Higher Education
How did we get into this mess? To answer this question, I follow Erich Fromm in distinguishing carefully between rational, irrational and anonymous modes of authority. These modes of authority are described in three of his books; Escape from Freeedom, … Continue reading
Adorno Letter to Fromm on Women
More and more I am convinced that the actual coincidence of Marxist theory and psychoanalysis lies not only in analogies of superstructure and base with ego and id etc., but rather in the connection between the fetish character of the … Continue reading
Thinking about Fromm and Marxism
Fromm actually began his attempt to unite Marxian class analysis with psychoanalysis in a critique of the criminal justice system, rather than in the study of fascism as such. Fromm’s most important contributions to Marxism came after World War II, … Continue reading
Life and Work of Erich Fromm
At the end of Escape from Freedom Fromm summarizes his new formulations: “We believe that man is primarily a social being, and not, as Freud assumes, primarily self-sufficient and only secondarily in need of others in order to satisfy his … Continue reading
Marcuse & Fromm: A New Window on Critical Theory
During the years 1954 to 1978, the Marxist-Humanist and feminist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya corresponded separately but intensively with two noted members of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm. The correspondence covered dialectical social theory, socialist humanism, the structure … Continue reading
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