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Is Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity indebted, even loosely, with Erich Fromm analysis of modern capitalistic society?

Francisco Bauman's work is rooted in Critical Theory. Fromm has been a member of the "Institut für Sozialforschung" (Frankfurt), along with Adorno, Horkheimer, …moreBauman's work is rooted in Critical Theory. Fromm has been a member of the "Institut für Sozialforschung" (Frankfurt), along with Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse and others, the fathers of the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory. Thus, you could say Bauman's work is loosely indebted to Fromm.
But Fromm parted from this 'school' and his intellectual sources moved away from Hegel, Marx & other philosophers Adorno et al. based their work on. For example, in "To Have or to Be?" he explores the work of German mystic Meister Eckhart (something he shared with Adorno's major intellectual opponent in the young BRD, Martin Heidegger). apart from the very general line of attack, the differences between Bauman and Fromm may be larger than their similarities.(less)

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