- Paperback: 156 pages
- Publisher: Constable (23 Oct 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0094744505
- ISBN-13: 978-0094744509
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Why is it so difficult to break away from the kind of existence that is based on having - gluttonous, conspicuous consumption - versus a life that is truly englightened and satisfying? Many unconscious factors come into play when individuals, even a whole society, stray into a superficial and false way of life. As Erich Fromm puts it in this posthumous publication, ours is "a life between having and being." The alternative states of having and being, as basic orientations of our lives and character, were subjects Fromm confronted in "To Have or to Be?" and "The Art of Being". The present work complements these texts with unpublished lectures, interviews, and apercus to lift us out of a life of passivity into one of creative joy.
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Rainer Funk wrote a doctoral dissertation on Fromm's thought and assisted Fromm at the time he wrote To Have or to be?, he has edited a ten volume Complete Works and eight volume Posthumous Writings, he controls the rights Fromm's writings and is therefore best placed to edit a single volume which can best summarise Fromm's perspective.
While it shouldnt deter any reader from investigating the writings from which the extractions here are taken or studying those sources first hand this book is a great source of out of print, difficult to find or previously unpublished material. It is a good place to read extracts in order to decide whether or not to buy the primary sources themselves.
The foreword is excellent, Funk must have known Fromm well and known his perspective too and he has also provided a good arrangment, structure and over view to Fromm with the selections he has choose for this volume. There is a good bibilography and list of sources and copyrights and two paragraph length biograpical notes, one on Fromm and another on the Editor, Rainer Funk, too.
There is no Index but the contents breaks down well as follows: Editors Foreword; On the Art of Living; Human Alienation (Market Economy and Its Effects on People, Reason and Intelligence, The split between affect and intellect, Love as a Commodity); Origins of the Having Mode of Existence (Patriarchal Society, Private Property, Having Mode and Language); To Have Or to Be (Having Versus Being, The Nature of the Having Mode of Existence, Having and Possessiveness, The Nature of the Being Mode of Existence, Being and Productivity); Essentials of Life Between Having and Being (Consumerism versus the Joy of Life, Busyness versus Productive Activity, Destructiveness versus Creativity, Narcissism versus Productive Self-Experience, Idolatry versus Humanistic Religiousness, Denial of Death versus Love of Life); Steps Towards Being (The Will for Character Changes, Changes of Practice of Life, Transformation of Humankind) and Bibliography.
I recommend it to anyone who is new to Eric Fromm as much as anyone who has read his books before now, it is a good source if you are only familiar with Fromm from the Routledge Classics books The Fear of Freedom (Routledge Classics) or Man for Himself: An Enquiry into the Psychology of Ethics (Routledge Classics).
This contains the whole of social critique and characterology, his main premise of a division between human having and human being modes of existence and possible way out or means of transcending this scenario.
While it shouldnt deter any reader from investigating the writings from which the extractions here are taken or studying those sources first hand this book is a great source of out of print, difficult to find or previously unpublished material. It is a good place to read extracts in order to decide whether or not to buy the primary sources themselves.
The foreword is excellent, Funk must have known Fromm well and known his perspective too and he has also provided a good arrangment, structure and over view to Fromm with the selections he has choose for this volume. There is a good bibilography and list of sources and copyrights and two paragraph length biograpical notes, one on Fromm and another on the Editor, Rainer Funk, too.
There is no Index but the contents breaks down well as follows: Editors Foreword; On the Art of Living; Human Alienation (Market Economy and Its Effects on People, Reason and Intelligence, The split between affect and intellect, Love as a Commodity); Origins of the Having Mode of Existence (Patriarchal Society, Private Property, Having Mode and Language); To Have Or to Be (Having Versus Being, The Nature of the Having Mode of Existence, Having and Possessiveness, The Nature of the Being Mode of Existence, Being and Productivity); Essentials of Life Between Having and Being (Consumerism versus the Joy of Life, Busyness versus Productive Activity, Destructiveness versus Creativity, Narcissism versus Productive Self-Experience, Idolatry versus Humanistic Religiousness, Denial of Death versus Love of Life); Steps Towards Being (The Will for Character Changes, Changes of Practice of Life, Transformation of Humankind) and Bibliography.
I recommend it to anyone who is new to Eric Fromm as much as anyone who has read his books before now, it is a good source if you are only familiar with Fromm from the Routledge Classics books The Fear of Freedom (Routledge Classics) or Man for Himself: An Enquiry into the Psychology of Ethics (Routledge Classics).
This contains the whole of social critique and characterology, his main premise of a division between human having and human being modes of existence and possible way out or means of transcending this scenario.
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This allows you to dip into the collection of his writing which was numerous. Fromm was the archetypal believer in the perfectability of mankind through self knowledge and self awareness. He reflects back to another dimension of both Stirner and Nietzsche as he dispels the false representations people wrap around themselves to provide meaning and solace.
Taking Marx's theory of alienation and combining this with psychotherapy he recreates the feelings of being split into two, the emotional self and the rational self.Fromm takes MArx and tries to understand how the violence within societies is enacted and its effects on individual perception and psychology. This is a book for the initiate as it opens the door into the world of alienation, relegation to consumer. It is through understanding his concepts the process of individual liberation can begin as he shows the violence inherent within society.
The individual journey, the impact of violence within families is however missing within Fromms work as he was still tied to Freud and his drive theories. This made Fromm a partial seer as he could never tear away to look at incest and physical abuse in families. Fromm had a blind spot around familial abuse and this was not helped by him being seduced by his analyst Frieda Reichmann Fromm.
Therefore worth exploring to investigate the wider world of therapy but Erich does not have the ability to look too closely at home.
Taking Marx's theory of alienation and combining this with psychotherapy he recreates the feelings of being split into two, the emotional self and the rational self.Fromm takes MArx and tries to understand how the violence within societies is enacted and its effects on individual perception and psychology. This is a book for the initiate as it opens the door into the world of alienation, relegation to consumer. It is through understanding his concepts the process of individual liberation can begin as he shows the violence inherent within society.
The individual journey, the impact of violence within families is however missing within Fromms work as he was still tied to Freud and his drive theories. This made Fromm a partial seer as he could never tear away to look at incest and physical abuse in families. Fromm had a blind spot around familial abuse and this was not helped by him being seduced by his analyst Frieda Reichmann Fromm.
Therefore worth exploring to investigate the wider world of therapy but Erich does not have the ability to look too closely at home.
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A First Rate Introduction to Fromm
12 Mar 2001
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Rainer Funk brings together the most lucid and poignant passages from Fromms oeuvre. The chapters are concise and the ideas are cogently presented. In Fromm's humanistic writings and critiques one, of course, finds references to Marx and Freud. However, one can equally recognize the insights of Heidegger, Nietzsche and even the mystic traditions of Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism and Christianity. Fromm's insights on capitalism and the 'having' mode of being are incredibly insightful and should offer the reader a great deal of reflection, especially in context with today's consumerism. Yet, in contrast, Fromm offers suggestions to free oneself from the limited and pernicious sensibilities of materialism and pecuniary greed. This collection will be an excellent complement to Marx, Veblen and Marcuse, and an indispensible introduction to Fromm and the Frankfurt school.
34 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Thorough Fromm compilation
30 May 2000
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This compilation of Fromm's writing, speeches, and interviews surrounding the topic of "having" versus "being" was very well compiled. Editor Funk takes relative material throughout Fromm's career and organizes it into a flowing, readable format; Not to mention the amazing insight Fromm covers when addressing this pertinent concept. Anyone seeking an alternative vision of how to live life more fully, and more humanistically should read this, as well as the rest of Fromm's writings. He was a genius.
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