The Essential Fromm: Life Between Having and Being - Erich Fromm

Category: Adults, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Nonfiction Philosophy Psychology Sociology Theory

Written by Erich Fromm
Read by Jim Seybert
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

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 The mostly unpublished and unknown texts featured in The Essential Fromm encapsulate the psychologist’s views on the fulfilling life.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

Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
Release date: 02-27-24