20th century · 1900–1980
Who influenced Erich Fromm?
Influences
Humanist psychoanalysis of escape, love, and the sane society.
Erich Fromm was influenced by Karl Marx. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Erich Fromm?
Erich Fromm was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and humanist philosopher, as well as a democratic socialist.
A German Jew, he fled the Nazi regime for the United States, where he helped found the William Alanson White Institute of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in New York. He was linked with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Erich Fromm?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Karl Marx 1818–1883
The line of teachers behind Erich Fromm
The longest documented line of influence ending at Erich Fromm runs 25 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- Karl Marx
- Erich Fromm
Two steps away from Erich Fromm
Indirect influences
- Through Karl Marx: Democritus, Epicurus, Adam Smith, Georg W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Feuerbach
Contemporaries of Erich Fromm
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Erich Fromm, with no direct line between them.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer 1900–2002
- Gilbert Ryle 1900–1976
- Jacques Lacan 1901–1981
- Louis Hjelmslev 1899–1965
- Alfred Schutz 1899–1959
- Karl Popper 1902–1994
- Herbert Marcuse 1898–1979
- Émile Benveniste 1902–1976
Erich Fromm by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 93
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 70 — #25 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Schools and lineages
Questions about Erich Fromm
- Who influenced Erich Fromm?
- Karl Marx.
- Who did Erich Fromm influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Erich Fromm.
- When did Erich Fromm live?
- 1900–1980. The map files Erich Fromm under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Erich Fromm card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Erich Fromm in 70 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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