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

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 The mostly unpublished and unknown texts featured in The Essential Fromm encapsulate the psychologist's views on the fulfilling life.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.

Author Bio

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

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