Erich Fromm's revolutionary hope : prophetic messianism as a critical theory of the future / Joan Braune.
"Socialism ... is essentially prophetic Messianism ..." So Erich Fromm writes in his 1961 classic Marx's Concept of Man. World-renowned Critical Theorist, activist, psychoanalyst, and public Marxist intellectual, Erich Fromm (1900-1980) played a pivotal role in the early Frankfurt Ins...
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Rotterdam, Netherlands :
Sense Publishers,
[2014]
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| Series: | Imagination and praxis ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Eric Fromm's legacy and contribution to the early Frankfurt School
- 1.1. The airbrushing of Fromm from the history of the Institute
- 1.2. The Lehrhaus to the Therapeuticum
- 1.3. Fromm and the Institute for Social Research
- Interlude: Fromm from Mexico to Switzerland
- 2. Weimar Germany, prophetic to apocalyptic
- 2.1. The German Jewish left and the milieu of Weimar Germany
- 2.2. Three from the Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus
- 2.3. Two "theologians of the revolution"
- 2.4. Air from other planets: Stefan George's reactionary antinomianism
- 3. What hope isn't and is
- 3.1. What hope is not
- 3.2. What hope is
- 3.3. Grounds for hope
- 4. Fromm's concepts of prophetic and catastrophic messianism
- 4.1. Apocalyptic vs. prophetic messianism: response to Eduardo Mendieta
- 4.2. The ecstatic-cathartic model vs. prophetic messianism: response to Rainer Funk.