How to Become a Forgotten Intellectual: Intellectual Movements and the Rise and Fall of Erich Fromm

Abstract

The ideas and reputational history of German psychoanalyst and sociologist Erich Fromm are examined as a case study in the sociology of knowledge that explores how intellectual boundaries are constructed within and between disciplines in the modem academy, psychoanalytic institutes, and the journal and book reading publics and among the intellectual elite. The “rise and fall” of Erich Fromm is narrated using the foil of Michèle Lament's …