Rainer Funk, Neil McLaughlin (Eds.)

Towards a Human Science

The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today

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Buchreihe: Bibliothek der Psychoanalyse

Verlag: Psychosozial-Verlag

322 Seiten, Broschur, 148 x 210 mm

ISBN-13: 978-3-8379-2535-7, Bestell-Nr.: 2535

Erich Fromms Sozialpsychologie und sein Konzept des Sozialcharakters stehen im Zentrum seines wissenschaftlichen Erbes. Sein Ansatz zeigt, wie sich wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Erfordernisse in psychischen Strebungen manifestieren, die ihrerseits dem Denken, Fühlen und Handeln der Menschen eine bestimmte Ausrichtung geben.

Die Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger des Buches machen mit dem aktuellen Stand der Forschungen zum Sozialpsychologen und Humanisten Fromm bekannt und geben einen Überblick über die weltweite Weiterentwicklung seines Denkens in den Human- und Sozialwissenschaften. Sie werden durch einen programmatischen Beitrag Fromms zu einer »Humanistischen Wissenschaft vom Menschen« eingeleitet.

Mit Beiträgen von Kevin Anderson, Burkhard Bierhoff, Joan Braune, Sandra Buechler, Mauricio Cortina, Takeshi Deguchi, Jan Dietrich, Rainer Funk, Sonia Gojman de Millán, Jürgen Hardeck, Luis Jimenez, Helmut Johach, Adrian Kind, Michael Maccoby, Neil McLaughlin, Dietmar Mieth, Salvador Millán, Anna Müller-Hermann, Nikolai Omelchenko, Rainer Otte, Tatiana Panfilova und Manfred Zimmer


There is a global rediscovery of the ideas and theories of Erich Fromm underway, leading to this book that reviews Fromm’s international reception and provides a critical reappraisal of his work rooted in his own philosophy of science that insists on the time-limited nature of all theoretical systems. Because of Fromm’s provocative philosophy of science, this volume is entitled Towards a Human Science and begins with the republication of a 1957 essay called The Humanistic Science of Man. Most of the papers in the book have their origins in presentations given at the first International Erich Fromm Research Conference at the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin (June 2014).

In addition to documenting Fromm’s continuing relevance, Towards a Human Science centrally engages with his theoretical system directly and critically, particularly his theory of social character. The book opens paths for research, theories and insights in neurosciences, evolutionary psychology, sociology, philosophy, religious studies and radical humanist public intellectual work. In doing so, this revisit and reappraisal can help us move beyond some of the limitations of his work and reformulate and build on his insights for the 21st century.

With contributions by Kevin Anderson, Burkhard Bierhoff, Joan Braune, Sandra Buechler, Mauricio Cortina, Takeshi Deguchi, Jan Dietrich, Rainer Funk, Sonia Gojman de Millán, Jürgen Hardeck, Luis Jimenez, Helmut Johach, Adrian Kind, Michael Maccoby, Neil McLaughlin, Dietmar Mieth, Salvador Millán, Anna Müller-Hermann, Nikolai Omelchenko, Rainer Otte, Tatiana Panfilova and Manfred Zimmer

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Content

Introduction
Rainer Funk and Neil McLaughlin

The Humanistic Science of Man
Erich Fromm

Building on Erich Fromm’s Scientific Contributions
Michael Maccoby

The Reception of Erich Fromm’s Writings and Ideas
Rainer Funk

Fact and Fiction about Erich Fromm’s Life and Work
Jürgen Hardeck

Erich Fromm: Lives and Voices, or Life and Voice?
Joan Braune

Erich Fromm’s Legacy
Rainer Funk

Erich Fromm’s Impact on Humanistic Psychology
Helmut Johach

Male to Gay Male Emotional Communication and Erich Fromm’s Notions of Being “Centrally Related” to the Patient and “Mature Love”
Luis Jimenez

Inspired by Erich Fromm
Sandra Buechler

Understanding Social Motivation for Encouraging Children’s Development
Social Character Studies in Mexico
Sonia Gojman de Millán and Salvador Millán

Fromm’s View of the Human Condition in Light of Contemporary Evolutionary and Developmental Knowledge
Mauricio Cortina

Man as a Contradiction
Philosophical Ideas of Erich Fromm
Nikolai Omelchenko

Social Character and Social Unconscious
Erich Fromm’s Discovery and the Problems of Today
Tatiana Panfilova

Fromm, Marx, and Humanism
Kevin B. Anderson

Erich Fromm and Critical Theory in Post-War Japanese Social Theory
Its Past, Present, and Future
Takeshi Deguchi

Fromm’s Critique of Consumerism and Its Impact on Education
Burkhard Bierhoff

Social Character and its Significance for the Art of Living
Rainer Otte

Erich Fromm in Hebrew Bible Research
With a Side Glance at Religious Studies
Jan Dietrich

Erich Fromm: “To Be” instead of “To Have” as a Model for the Justice of Distribution
An Inquiry on Fromm’s Reference to Meister Eckhart
Dietmar Mieth

Erich Fromm in China – Overview of the Reception of his Thinking (1961–2014)
A Preliminary Study. Poster Presentation
Manfred Zimmer

Reflections on the Conference
Anna Müller-Hermann and Adrian Kind

About the Authors