The Essential Fromm, Erich Fromm
The Essential Fromm, Erich Fromm
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The Essential Fromm
Life Between Having and Being

Author: Erich Fromm, Rainer Funk

Narrator: Jim Seybert

Unabridged: 4 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/27/2024


Synopsis

Essays on human alienation, mode of existence, consumerism, narcissism, and more from "both a psychologist of penetration and a writer of ability" (Chicago Tribune).

As Erich Fromm points out, ours is "a life between having and being"—between mere having and healthy being, between destructiveness and creativity, between narcissism and productive self-understanding, between passivity and the joy of positive activity.

The alternatives of having and being are basic orientations of our character and determine our behavior. The mostly unpublished and unknown texts featured in The Essential Fromm encapsulate the psychologist's views on the fulfilling life. To put down roots yet remain free is what the late Erich Fromm called the art of being. It is the secret of happiness.

About Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kinga

To have or to be? Well, it’s simple really. To be, of course. To be rich! Now, jokes aside. I don’t normally read philosophical books because I share Lara's, from Doctor Zhivago, view on philosophy. She says: "I am not fond of philosophical essays. I think a little philosophy should be added to life......more

مقدمه جایی (فکر کنم یکی از مقاله های ترجمان بود، متأسفانه فراموش کرده ام) نوشته بود که سبک زندگی غربی طی صد ساله اخیر، تغییری بنیادی کرده است. در اروپای قرن نوزدهم، اساس زندگی انسان غربی "زندگی برای دیگران" بود، یا زندگی برای نمودن. نمود این سبک زندگی، مرکزیت اتاق پذیرایی در خانه بود، اتاقی پر از تجم......more

Goodreads review by Hans

Absolutely brilliant book. It takes a lot for a book to move me, or present a new idea that totally affects my perceptions of reality. This book got right to core of a deep-seated culturally accepted norm that was so hard to see I didn't even realize it was there. I have been aware of others talking......more