Radicalizing the Role of the Emancipatory Teacher in the Crisis of Democracy: Erich Fromm’s Psychoanalytic Approach to Deweyan Democratic Education

Morita, Kazunao

doi:10.1007/s11217-022-09830-y

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“…To ease the argumentative burden of bringing Fromm and Dewey together, I draw on Morita (2022), who has pointed out the ways in which Fromm's social psychoanalytic work can be fruitful for Dewey's ethical project of a living democracy, in particular for democratic education and the role of the emancipatory teacher, on which Morita focuses (2022: 469; cf. also Monchinski 2008).…”

Section: Escaping From Freedommentioning

confidence: 99%

Communicative Power(lessness)

Braun

2023

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This article aims to combine the strengths of Erich Fromm’s and John Dewey’s social philosophies. I argue that the merits of this comparison become particularly clear when the theories are outlined and compared in the following three steps. First, a social theoretical common ground of Dewey and Fromm will be illustrated. Their “World War genealogies” share the same defense mechanism as the major explanation of the Germans’ tendency to voluntary submission, which involves a strong feeling of powerlessness. Against this background, the next step elaborates the ethical side of their argument. Already the World War genealogies are written with melioristic intent, and especially later works (in case of both authors) elaborate the respective ethical theory as well as the ideas concerning melioristic social science and social psychology. These ethics aim at good communication (in a broad sense), while the melioristic social research focuses on the concrete manifestations of social character, allowing to empirically identify hindering and facilitating factors of social amelioration. Both can be linked using the concept of communicative power(lessness). By way of outlook, I will finally consider the combination of a democratic, communication-oriented ethics with qualitative sociopsychoanalytic research in Fromm’s sense as a straightforward and promising approach for an interdisciplinary social philosophy.

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Section: Escaping From Freedommentioning

confidence: 99%