Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology

Front Cover -- Series -- Erich Fromm And Global Public Sociology -- Copyright Information -- Table Of Contents -- 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 Neil Mclaughlin. Evaluating Fromm's Activism And Policy Sociology, Both Inside And Outside The System. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.