Erich Fromm

To Have or To Be? (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the legendary psychoanalyst who wrote The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom: A profound critique of materialism in favor of living with meaning. Life in the modern age began when people no longer lived at the mercy of nature and instead took control of it. We planted crops so we didn't have to forage, and produced planes, trains, and cars for transport. With televisions and computers, we don't have to leave home to see the world. Somewhere in that process, the natural tendency of humankind went from one of being and of practicing our own human abilities and powers, to one of having by possessing objects and using tools that replace our own powers to think, feel, and act independently. Fromm argues that positive change-both social and economic-will come from being, loving, and sharing. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 215
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781480401945
• Artikelnr.: 44662023

Autorenporträt

Erich Fromm (1900-1980) was a bestselling psychoanalyst and social philosopher whose views about alienation, love, and sanity in society-discussed in his books such as Escape from Freedom, The Art of Loving, The Sane Society,and To Have or To Be?-helped shape the landscape of psychology in the mid-twentieth century. Fromm was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to Jewish parents, and studied at the universities of Frankfurt, Heidelberg (where in 1922 he earned his doctorate in sociology), and Munich. In the 1930s he was one of the most influential figures at the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research. In 1934, as the Nazis rose to power, he moved to the United States. He practiced psychoanalysis in both New York and Mexico City before moving to Switzerland in 1974, where he continued his work until his death.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction: The Great Promise, Its Failure, and New Alternatives
Part 1: Understanding the Difference between Having and Being
I. A First Glance
II. Having and Being in Daily Experience
III. Having and Being in the Old and New Testaments and in the Writings of Master Eckhart
Part 2: Analyzing the Fundamental Differences between the Two Modes of Existence
IV. What Is the Having Mode?
V. What Is the Being Mode?
VI. Further Aspects of Having and Being
Part 3: The New Man and the New Society
VII. Religion, Character, and Society
VIII. Conditions for Human Change and the Features of the New Man
IX. Features of the New Society
Bibliography
Index