Visions of A Sane Society

Building critically from the work of Erich Fromm, who argued that societies based on class domination foster aggressive personalities and normalize pathology, this unique book envisions spiritual-intellectual-emotional unity to promote a living experience of fulfilling and productive social relations.

George Lundskow is Professor of Sociology at Grand Valley State University. He is the author of White Supremacy and Anti-Supremacy Forces in the United States (2024), as well as cöauthor with Sarah MacMillen of QAnon and Other Replacement Realities: How Religious Emotion Threatens Free Society but Can Also Contribute to a Progressive Future (2023). Lauren Langman is Professor of Sociology at Loyola University, Chicago. He has published widely in critical theory and social movements, such as Alienation and the Carnivalization of Society (Routledge, 2012), which he cöedited with Jerome Braun and volumes on hegemony and Arab Spring/Occupy.

1. Introduction: A Sane Society Now and in the Future, 2. Can We Become Fully Human During and After Late Capitalism?, 3. American Authoritarian Populism, aka American Fascism, 4. Star Trek or the Matrix? Universal Humanism versus Technofascism, 5. The Messianic Moments of Critical Theory and MAGA, 6. Visions of a Sane Society, Epilogue from George Lundskow: A Paradise of Life, Liberty, and Happiness-for Everyone, Epilogue from Lauren Langman: Toward a Healthy Society