The Art of Loving (Perennial Classics)
by Erich Fromm
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Author: Erich FrommEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-09-01
ISBN: 0060958286
Number of pages: 129
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Book Review: A Classic of Humanisitc Philosophy
Summary: 5 Stars
Certainly Erich Fromm's best work, The Art of Loving summarizes the core aspects of Fromm's idea's on love and human nature. It would be incorrect to describe The Art of Loving or any of Fromm's work as scientific theories of human behavior. Rather, his work puts forth a complete philosophy of love and harmony that is at odds with the dominant scientific and technical philosophy that dominates post-Enlightenment Western thought. Drawing more on the humanistic and Marxist strain in Western thought, Fromm argues that love is a paradox. It is the union of two people who remain independent individuals. It is a situation where "two become one, and yet remain two". He contrasts this with the situation where one individual dominates the union (sadism, masochism), which he likens to the dominant-dependent love between parent and child. Whatever its philosophical origins, however, Fromm's ideas very simple and the book is very simply written and quite short. Of all the great philosophers, Fromm is by far the most accessible. All the better, because Fromm's central idea, that love is not the excitement of having a new lover, is not the asymmetric union of man over woman or woman over man, but rather that love is the union of two individuals who remain independent from one another, is an idea that modern society must discover.
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