The art of loving / by Erich Fromm ; planned and edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Anshen, Ruth Nanda.

Series:

World perspectives ; v. 9.

World perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love.

Amor.

Liefde.

Medical Subjects:

Love.

Local Subjects:

Amor.

Liefde.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Laurence, Paula (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Bowden, Charles, 1913-1996 (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

133 pages ; 20 cm.

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper & Row, [1956]

Summary:

Presents his view of the nature of love involving the whole personality and an orientation toward life.

Contents:

I. Is love an art?

II. The theory of love. Love, the answer to the problem of human existence

Love between parent and child

The objects of love : Brotherly love ; Motherly love ; Erotic love ; Self-love ; Love of God

III. Love and its disintegration in contemporary Western society

IV. The practice of love.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has newspaper clipping "Erich Fromm Dies in Switzerland; Psychoanalyst and Author Was 79" from The New York Times March 19, 1980 and photograph laid in at front.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has copy of International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Biographical Supplement p.215-219 laid in at front.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy inscribed "For Paula + Chuck with love Erich" on front flyleaf.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. note "L'amour est l'enfant de la liberte. Gnothi seauton" on half-title.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has marks throughout p.41.

OCLC:

259399