Western democracy: from social pathology towards a “healthy society”. E. Fromm’s analysis and forecast
- Authors: Zhukov V.N.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 1 (2024)
- Pages: 24–37
- Section: Legal, political and religious thought
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1026-9452/article/view/255477
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S1026945224010033
- ID: 255477
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Abstract
The article examines E. Fromm’s views on modern Western society from the perspective of psychoanalysis. His concept of social character, the phenomena of alienation, positive and negative freedom are revealed. Special attention is paid to the topic of social norms and social pathology of modern Western democracies (especially the USA). The article considers Fromm’s project on reforming the political and economic systems of Western countries on the basis of moral and mental change of a person.
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Vyacheslav N. Zhukov
Lomonosov Moscow State University; Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Email: pifagor2002@mail.ru
Doctor of Law, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Professor of the Department of Theory of State and Law and Political Science of the Faculty of Law at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Chief Researcher, Sector of Philosophy of Law, Theory and History of the State and Law Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RAS expert
Russian Federation, 119991, Moscow, Leninskie Gory, 1 bld. 13; 119019, Moscow, Znamenka str., 10References
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