Reclaiming the Sane Society

Preface; Foreword: Fromm's Social Psychological Approach and Its Relevance for Today; PART I: THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF ERICH FROMM; On the Psychology and Libertarian Socialism of Erich Fromm: Towards an Empirically Based Psychological Retrofit; Fromm's Dialectic of Freedom and the Praxis of Being; Humanism and Sociological Imagination in a Frommesque Style; Normative Humanism as Redemptive Critique: Knowledge and Judgment in Fromm's Social Theory; Erich Fromm's Socialist Program and Prophetic Messianism, In Two Parts; PART II: FROMM AND RELIGION
6. On Marx and Religion; What is Spirituality?: Insights from Religious Studies and Humanistic Psychology; Erich Fromm's Social Psychological Theory of Religion: Toward the X-experience and the City of Being; Erich Fromm and Thomas Merton: Biophilia, Necrophilia, and Messianism; Fromm's Notion of the Prophet and the Priest: Ancient Antagonisms, Modern Manifestations; PART III: APPLYING AND EXTENDING FROMM'S THEORY; The Relevance of Fromm's Concept of the Distorted Personality; Neoliberalism as Social Necrophilia: Erich Fromm and the Politics of Hopelessness in Greece; Hope-Faith-Fortitude??? Praxis: Retheorizing U.S. Schooling with Erich Fromm; Revisiting Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud: Reflections on Fromm's Theory and Practice within the Psychotherapeutic Encounter; Notes on Contributors;