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(2014) Reclaiming the sane society, Rotterdam, SensePublishers.

The relevance of Fromm's concept of the distorted personality

Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker

pp. 163-185

The general lack of interest in Erich Fromm's work today, in part, marks the success of his critics during his lifetime.1 Two of his severest and earliest critics, Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, were, like Fromm, former members of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. As early as 1936, in a letter to Max Horkheimer regarding an article by Fromm, Adorno accused Fromm of political and theoretical naïveté.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6209-607-3_11

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Smulewicz-Zucker, G. (2014)., The relevance of Fromm's concept of the distorted personality, in S. Javad Miri, R. Lake & T. M. Kress (eds.), Reclaiming the sane society, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, pp. 163-185.

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