Kieran Durkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kieran Durkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kieran |
| FAMILY NAME | Durkin |
| SIGNATURE | DURKIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8996-7685 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Living life as an art: Erich Fromm and Michel Foucault on the art of existence in late capitalism
Towards an ontology of struggle: The Marxist-Humanist theory of social transformation in the work of Raya Dunayevskaya
This article outlines Dunayevskaya's original but underappreciated contribution to Marxism as a body of theory and practice. Focusing specifically on her Marxist-Humanist 'ontology of struggle' in its various dimensions, it draws out her engagement with Marx such that a new, vitalised account of social transformation is elaborated. From her critique of labour and state capitalism to her account of the dual movement between practice and theory, to…
Adventures in the anti-humanist dialectic: Towards the reappropriation of humanism
The hegemonic discourse on humanism in the contemporary academy - a critical discourse in the form of a theoretical anti-humanism - is marked by a certain degree of impoverishment. This impoverishment is the result of many contextual factors, including the ideological purposes to which the discourse has been put, but also the effects of internal workings of the paradigm associated with anti-humanism itself. In this article, I trace the developmen…
Raya Dunayevskaya's Intersectional Marxism: Race, Class, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation
Erich Fromm’s Critical Theory: Hope, Humanism, and the Future
Interest in Fromm is increasing: as a prominent Marxist, sociologist, psychoanalytic theorist, and public intellectual, the unique normative-humanist thrust of his writings provides a crucial critical reference point for those seeking to understand and transcend the societal pathologies of our age. The essays in this volume retrieve, revive, and expand upon Fromm’s central insights and contributions. They offer a critical theory of culture, the s…
Raya Dunayevskaya's Intersectional Marxism: Race, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation
For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics and Debating Humanity: Towards a Philosophical Sociology
Re-interrogating normativity – philosophical sociology and emancipatory critique
Daniel Chernilo opens his timely and impressive Debating Humanity by asking us to ‘step back and interrogate again the status of our conceptions of the human’. (Chernilo 2017, 11) The act of interr
Erich Fromm and Theodor W. Adorno Reconsidered
This article explores the theoretical relationship between Erich Fromm and Theodor W. Adorno. Seeking to transcend the facile polarization that has hitherto characterized the reception of Fromm and Adorno, the article charts the evolution of their early relationship with Max Horkheimer and the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and then considers the substantive correspondences and divergences between their bodies of thought. The article cal…
The still small voice: Psychoanalytic reflections on guilt and conscience
Lawrence J. Friedman: The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet
Erich Fromm's Critical Theory: Prophetic, Scholarly or Revolutionary
Anti-Humanism: A Radical Humanist Defense
T aken as a whole, Fromm’s writings amount to the development of an extended manifesto for human unfolding; in particular, for the unfolding of our capacities for love over hate, rationality over irra- tionality, productiveness over destructiveness, and authenticity over confor- mity. It is a vision that is built on the basis of a restated and radicalized humanism that sees itself as the completion (in inverted form) of classi- cal Judaeo-Christi…
Psychoanalytic Social Psychology
A s developed by Fromm, psychoanalytic social psychology 1 represents a synthesis of the thought of Marx and Freud. In particular, it is the recognition of Marx’s demonstration of our enmeshment in socio- economic conditions and Freud’s demonstration of our enmeshment in psy- chological needs (and the enmeshment of the one with the other). As such, it concerns the adding of an extra dimension to Marxian analysis in the form of the understanding o…
The Life and Writings of a Radical Humanist
C onsidering the comparative disregard of Fromm’s thought with that of other thinkers from the same period—particularly his Frankfurt School associates and contemporaries, Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin, 1 and also slightly later thinkers such as R. D. Laing, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, etc.—there is particular benefit in engaging in an intellectual biographical account of Fromm at the outset. This is apt not only because of the general lack of …
The Roots of Radical Humanism
T he fullest and most explicit definition that Fromm gives of radical humanism is found in the early pages of You Shall Be as Gods . Here he explains that “by radical humanism I refer to a global philosophy which emphasizes the oneness of the human race, the capacity of man to develop his own powers and to arrive at inner harmony and at the estab- lishment of a peaceful world. Radical humanism considers the goal of man to be that of complete inde…
Radical Humanist Psychoanalysis
I n the earliest part of Fromm’s career, the time from which he cofounded the Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute to his emigration to the United States along with the Institut für Sozialforschung , his work had focused primarily on the development of a psychoanalytic social psychology, which could be used in historical materialist analysis. All throughout this period, it is clear that he adhered to what was a more or less orthodox Freudian positi…
Conclusion
I t has been the central contention of this book that the radical humanism that emanates from Erich Fromm’s writing is a unique and valuable con- tribution to social theory. This radical humanist social theory, which was insufficiently formulated as an explicit theory, but which saturates Fromm’s writings nonetheless, is based on a policy of refined continuation in relation to the classical humanist tradition—a policy that enables him to engage i…
The Renaissance of Humanism
A t the end of Beyond the Chains of Illusion —a book that ranks among the most personal of his works—Fromm makes a call for the “renais- sance of humanistic experience” (2006 [1962]: 128). In prose that combines Nietzschean and Heideggerian elements with the more constitutive humanistic religiosity that characterizes his own thought, he states that if the One World is not to destroy itself, it needs a new kind of man—a man who transcends the narr…
The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm
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 intellectua
The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm
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 intellectua
Adventures in the anti-humanist dialectic: Towards the reappropriation of humanism
The hegemonic discourse on humanism in the contemporary academy - a critical discourse in the form of a theoretical anti-humanism - is marked by a certain degree of impoverishment. This impoverishment is the result of many contextual factors, including the ideological purposes to which the discourse has been put, but also the effects of internal workings of the paradigm associated with anti-humanism itself. In this article, I trace the developmen…
Erich Fromm and Theodor W. Adorno Reconsidered
This article explores the theoretical relationship between Erich Fromm and Theodor W. Adorno. Seeking to transcend the facile polarization that has hitherto characterized the reception of Fromm and Adorno, the article charts the evolution of their early relationship with Max Horkheimer and the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and then considers the substantive correspondences and divergences between their bodies of thought. The article cal…
Erich Fromm's Critical Theory: Prophetic, Scholarly or Revolutionary
Anti-Humanism: A Radical Humanist Defense
T aken as a whole, Fromm’s writings amount to the development of an extended manifesto for human unfolding; in particular, for the unfolding of our capacities for love over hate, rationality over irra- tionality, productiveness over destructiveness, and authenticity over confor- mity. It is a vision that is built on the basis of a restated and radicalized humanism that sees itself as the completion (in inverted form) of classi- cal Judaeo-Christi…
Psychoanalytic Social Psychology
A s developed by Fromm, psychoanalytic social psychology 1 represents a synthesis of the thought of Marx and Freud. In particular, it is the recognition of Marx’s demonstration of our enmeshment in socio- economic conditions and Freud’s demonstration of our enmeshment in psy- chological needs (and the enmeshment of the one with the other). As such, it concerns the adding of an extra dimension to Marxian analysis in the form of the understanding o…
The Life and Writings of a Radical Humanist
C onsidering the comparative disregard of Fromm’s thought with that of other thinkers from the same period—particularly his Frankfurt School associates and contemporaries, Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin, 1 and also slightly later thinkers such as R. D. Laing, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, etc.—there is particular benefit in engaging in an intellectual biographical account of Fromm at the outset. This is apt not only because of the general lack of …
The Roots of Radical Humanism
T he fullest and most explicit definition that Fromm gives of radical humanism is found in the early pages of You Shall Be as Gods . Here he explains that “by radical humanism I refer to a global philosophy which emphasizes the oneness of the human race, the capacity of man to develop his own powers and to arrive at inner harmony and at the estab- lishment of a peaceful world. Radical humanism considers the goal of man to be that of complete inde…
Radical Humanist Psychoanalysis
I n the earliest part of Fromm’s career, the time from which he cofounded the Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute to his emigration to the United States along with the Institut für Sozialforschung , his work had focused primarily on the development of a psychoanalytic social psychology, which could be used in historical materialist analysis. All throughout this period, it is clear that he adhered to what was a more or less orthodox Freudian positi…
Conclusion
I t has been the central contention of this book that the radical humanism that emanates from Erich Fromm’s writing is a unique and valuable con- tribution to social theory. This radical humanist social theory, which was insufficiently formulated as an explicit theory, but which saturates Fromm’s writings nonetheless, is based on a policy of refined continuation in relation to the classical humanist tradition—a policy that enables him to engage i…
The Renaissance of Humanism
A t the end of Beyond the Chains of Illusion —a book that ranks among the most personal of his works—Fromm makes a call for the “renais- sance of humanistic experience” (2006 [1962]: 128). In prose that combines Nietzschean and Heideggerian elements with the more constitutive humanistic religiosity that characterizes his own thought, he states that if the One World is not to destroy itself, it needs a new kind of man—a man who transcends the narr…
The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm
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 intellectua
Erich Fromm's Critical Theory: Prophetic, Scholarly or Revolutionary
Lawrence J. Friedman: The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet
The still small voice: Psychoanalytic reflections on guilt and conscience
Re-interrogating normativity – philosophical sociology and emancipatory critique
Daniel Chernilo opens his timely and impressive Debating Humanity by asking us to ‘step back and interrogate again the status of our conceptions of the human’. (Chernilo 2017, 11) The act of interr
Erich Fromm and Theodor W. Adorno Reconsidered
This article explores the theoretical relationship between Erich Fromm and Theodor W. Adorno. Seeking to transcend the facile polarization that has hitherto characterized the reception of Fromm and Adorno, the article charts the evolution of their early relationship with Max Horkheimer and the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and then considers the substantive correspondences and divergences between their bodies of thought. The article cal…
Erich Fromm’s Critical Theory: Hope, Humanism, and the Future
Interest in Fromm is increasing: as a prominent Marxist, sociologist, psychoanalytic theorist, and public intellectual, the unique normative-humanist thrust of his writings provides a crucial critical reference point for those seeking to understand and transcend the societal pathologies of our age. The essays in this volume retrieve, revive, and expand upon Fromm’s central insights and contributions. They offer a critical theory of culture, the s…
Raya Dunayevskaya's Intersectional Marxism: Race, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation
For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics and Debating Humanity: Towards a Philosophical Sociology
Raya Dunayevskaya's Intersectional Marxism: Race, Class, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation
Adventures in the anti-humanist dialectic: Towards the reappropriation of humanism
The hegemonic discourse on humanism in the contemporary academy - a critical discourse in the form of a theoretical anti-humanism - is marked by a certain degree of impoverishment. This impoverishment is the result of many contextual factors, including the ideological purposes to which the discourse has been put, but also the effects of internal workings of the paradigm associated with anti-humanism itself. In this article, I trace the developmen…
Towards an ontology of struggle: The Marxist-Humanist theory of social transformation in the work of Raya Dunayevskaya
This article outlines Dunayevskaya's original but underappreciated contribution to Marxism as a body of theory and practice. Focusing specifically on her Marxist-Humanist 'ontology of struggle' in its various dimensions, it draws out her engagement with Marx such that a new, vitalised account of social transformation is elaborated. From her critique of labour and state capitalism to her account of the dual movement between practice and theory, to…
Living life as an art: Erich Fromm and Michel Foucault on the art of existence in late capitalism
Philosophy (16 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Humanism (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Theology (9 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)