Critical Pedagogy for the Post-COVID Society: Fromm, Freire, and a New Language of Humanization

• In Event: Freirean Praxis in Dehumanizing Times

Abstract

In this paper the authors bring the work of Erich Fromm and Paulo Friere into scholarly dialogue with each other through key terms in Fromm’s notions of having and being, biophilia and necrophilia, and love, considering them in relation to key tenets of Freire’s philosophy and its evolution over time. The authors extend this dialogue and make it relevant to this present post- covid society by adding their own voices to the unfinished conversation between these two scholars in a quest for a new language of humanization.

Authors

• Tricia M. Kress, Molloy University

• Robert Lewis Lake, Georgia Southern University