The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm [Paperback]

This book, shortlisted for the British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize (2015), argues that Fromm is a vital and largely overlooked contribution to twentieth-century intellectual history, and one who offers a refreshingly reconfigured form of humanism that is capable of reintegrating explicitly humanist analytical categories and schemas back into social theoretical (and scientific) considerations.Introduction 1. The Life and Writings of a Radical Humanist 2. The Roots of Radical Humanism 3. Radical Humanist Psychoanalysis 4. Psychoanalytic Social Psychology 5. Anti-Humanism: A Radical Humanist Defense 6. The Renaissance of Humanism Conclusion

Kieran Durkin is Marie SkBodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of York and Visting Fellow at UC-Santa Barbara.

Shortlisted for the British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize in 2015a breath of fresh air&the most vigorous, rigorous, lively, insightful analysis of Fromms work Ive encountered in many, many years (Daniel Burston, Associate Professor, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh)

a remarkable theoretical exploration&[t]he research here is meticulous (Lawrence J. Friedman, Professor Emeritus of History, Harvard University)

an outstanding interpretation of Fromms social theory (Lawrence Wilde, Professor Emeritus of Political Theory, Nottingham Trent University)

wide-ranging and highly compelling and will likely reinvigorate interest in what Fromm has to say as a social theorist. (Roger Frie, Professor of Educational Psychology and Human Development, Simon Fraser University)

[taking] the debate about Fromm to a new level (Neil McLaughlin, Professor of Sociology, McMaster University)