Destructiveness in the Modern World: Lessons of E. Fromm

The article is devoted to clarifying the signifi cance of E. Fromm's concept of destructiveness for the study of modern forms of destructiveness and ways to overcome them. A theoretical reconstruction of the main elements of the thinker's concept of destructiveness is presented: understanding the nature of destructiveness and classifi cation of its forms, an idea of the causes and ways to overcome destructiveness. It is established that destructiveness is described by E. Fromm at three levels of theoretical analysis: 1. as a form of behavior (malignant aggression), 2. as a type of unproductive social character, 3. as a destructive personality type.
It is noted that the ways to overcome destructiveness are the weakest element of E. Fromm's concept of destructiveness. The article draws attention to new forms of destructiveness that appeared at the turn of the millennium: deconstruction of the natural man, deconstruction of personal identity, deconstruction of traditional sexual identity, return to the animal state. Based on the analysis of conceptual problems that have not received an effective solution in the system of E. Fromm, the ways of development of the modern concept of destructiveness are outlined, relying on the fruitful elements of the concept of Fromm. It is substantiated that the
prospects for the development of the modern concept of destructiveness consist in integrating the philosophical-anthropological, psychoanalytic and socio-philosophical approaches to the study of destructiveness and the relationship between its individualpersonal and social forms.