The Sane Society

Author(s):  
Erich Fromm ◽  
Leonard A. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
1984 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ann Black
Keyword(s):  

1956 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-144
Author(s):  
Harold Kenneth Fink
Keyword(s):  

Society ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-30
Author(s):  
Eugene Talbot ◽  
Stuart C. Miller
Keyword(s):  

Theology ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 59 (437) ◽  
pp. 457-459
Author(s):  
T. M. Heron
Keyword(s):  

1974 ◽  
Vol 124 (580) ◽  
pp. 252-259
Author(s):  
Allen R. Dyer

R. D. Laing has offered a challenge to society and to psychiatry which is difficult to accept, for it implies that ‘sane’ society and psychiatry as its instrument actually perpetuate rather than alleviate certain kinds of mental illness. In spite of Laing's growing popularity with the counter-culture, there is a conspicuous lack of consideration of Laing's thought in the psychiatric literature. This may be taken as a rejection of what Laing says, a sort of professional passive aggression. Indeed many would suggest that Laing has passed the limits of sanity; he is certainly deviant. Yet psychiatry's reticence may reflect the difficulty in responding appropriately to Laing's indictment. Apparently there is much truth in Laing's analysis. It is existential, and his considerations involve each of us as persons, not just as members of a corporate group, psychiatrists or sane citizens. Furthermore there is a temptation either to accept or to reject what Laing says as a whole without careful attention to the implications of his arguments.


Ethics ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-292
Author(s):  
Paul W. Kurtz
Keyword(s):  

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 104-120
Author(s):  
Haggag Ali

The critical theory of the Frankfurt School reached Egypt in 1955, when the Arabic translation of Erich Fromm’s The Sane Society (New York, 1955) was published in Cairo. Later, Herbert Marcuse’s Soviet Marxism (1958) was translated into Arabic in Beirut in 1965, and with the rise of student protests in France, Germany, and the United States, much attention was given to Marcuse; almost all his writings were translated into Arabic between 1969 and 1973. This article explores the nature of individual “receptions” of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School at Egyptian universities. To this end, it briefly introduces the early generation of the Frankfurt School, as well as the reasons of interest in its fate in Egyptian universities. Though master’s theses and doctoral dissertations do not represent a university’s orientation to critical theory, and at best represent the perspective of their individual authors, this article shows that key individual theses and dissertations testify to an early rejection of the Frankfurt School and to the late adoption of it as a critical paradigm of the transformations in Egyptian society.


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