Erich Fromm And The Quest For Solidarity

Erich Fromm and the Quest for Solidarity argues that Fromm’s humanistic ethics provides a framework for the analysis of alienation in affluent societies and his exploration of the social forces capable of challenging that alienation. It examines his work on authoritarianism, the experience of work, the struggle against patriarchy, the dangers of consumerism and the manipulation of needs, the urgent need to revive democracy, and the challenge of the emerging ’one world’. Never losing sight of the ancient dream of human solidarity, Fromm’s explicitly ethical approach exerts a compelling relevance to a range of issues in contemporary social and political theory.

LAWRENCE WILDE is Professor of Political Theory at Nottingham Trent University, UK. A graduate of the University of Liverpool, he is the author of Marx and Contradiction (1989), Modern European Socialism (1994), and Ethical Marxism and its Radical Critics (1998). He is also the editor of Marxism’s Ethical Thinkers (2001).