To have or to be? / Erich Fromm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality.

Ontology.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Open Road Integrated Media, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Erich Fromm's groundbreaking examination of an age-old question, and a stunning look at how to pursue a life with purpose and meaningLife 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 changeboth social and economicwill 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.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Epigraph

Foreword

Introduction: The Great Promise, Its Failure, and New Alternatives

The End of an Illusion

Why Did the Great Promise Fail?

The Economic Necessity for Human Change

Is There an Alternative to Catastrophe?

PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING AND BEING

I. A First Glance

The Importance of the Difference Between Having and Being

Examples in Various Poetic Expressions

Idiomatic Changes

Origin of the Terms

Philosophical Concepts of Being

Having and Consuming

II. Having and Being in Daily Experience

Learning

Remembering

Conversing

Reading

Exercising Authority

Having Knowledge and Knowing

Faith

Loving

III. Having and Being in the Old and New Testaments and in the Writings of Master Eckhart

The Old Testament

The New Testament

Master Eckhart (1260-c. 1327)

PART TWO: ANALYZING THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO MODES OF EXISTENCE

IV. What Is the Having Mode?

The Acquisitive Society

Basis for the Having Mode

The Nature of Having

Other Factors Supporting the Having Mode

The Having Mode and the Anal Character

Asceticism and Equality

Existential Having

V. What Is the Being Mode?

Being Active

Activity and Passivity

Being as Reality

The Will to Give, to Share, to Sacrifice

VI. Further Aspects of Having and Being

Security

Insecurity

Solidarity

Antagonism

Joy

Pleasure

Sin and Forgiveness

Fear of Dying

Affirmation of Living

Here, Now

Past, Future

PART THREE: THE NEW MAN AND THE NEW SOCIETY

VII. Religion, Character, and Society

The Foundations of Social Character

Social Character and "Religious" Needs

Is the Western World Christian?

The Humanist Protest

VIII. Conditions for Human Change and the Features of the New Man.

The New Man

IX. Features of the New Society

A New Science of Man

The New Society: Is There a Reasonable Chance?

Bibliography

Index

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A Biography of Erich Fromm

Copyright.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 20, 2020).

ISBN:

9781480401945

1480401943

OCLC:

830536897