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On being human
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Erich Fromm's insightful work on the modern human condition, and how to break free of its bondsIn the 1960s, renowned social psychologist Erich Fromm argued that people were becoming increasingly a...
Erich Fromm's insightful work on the modern human condition, and how to break free of its bondsIn the 1960s, renowned social psychologist Erich Fromm argued that people were becoming increasingly alienated. No longer were we dynamic, constantly creative beings. Instead, he observed, we were becoming fixated on things like television, while the specter of nuclear war remained a consistent worry. On Being Human gathers several ofFromm's writings on the ';New Humanism' he proposed. In addition, the book presents a most interesting chapter on ';Having' and ';Being' according to Master Eckhart and Karl Marx that originally was written to be included in To Have or To Be? This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate.
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- Creator
- Erich Fromm ; edited and with a foreword by Rainer Funk
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York : Open Road Integrated Media, 2013
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (180 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781480401990, 1480401994
- OCLC
- ocn892798725
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Editor's Foreword -- I. The Humanistic Alternative -- 1. Modern Man and the Future -- Stages in the Development of Western Man -- Alienation as a Disease of Modern Man -- Indifference as a New Manifestation of Evil -- The Alternative: A Renaissance of Humanism -- 2. The Psychological Problem of Man in Modern Society -- 3. What I Do Not Like in Contemporary Society -- 4. The Disintegration of Societies -- The Nature of Systems -- On Disintegration of Social Systems -- Disintegration or Reintegration of Contemporary Technological Society -- 5. The Search for a Humanistic Alternative -- Where Are We Moving to? -- The Conditions for a Humanist Activist Alternative -- The Necessity for an Alternative Movement -- 6. A New Humanism as a Condition for the One World -- The History of the Idea of Humanism -- The Relevance of Humanism for Today -- II. Humanistic Initiatives and Confessions -- 7. The Idea of a World Conference -- 8. Campaign for Eugene McCarthy -- 9. On the Common Struggle against Idolatry -- 10. Some Beliefs of Man, in Man, for Man -- 11. Remarks on the Relations between Germans and Jews -- III. Meister Eckhart and Karl Marx on Having and Being -- Introduction -- 12. Meister Eckhart -- On the Understanding of His Ideas -- On Having and Being -- The Sermon on Poverty -- 13. Karl Marx: The "Religious" Interests of Marx -- Excursus: Religion and the Concept of God -- Humanism as Secular Messianism -- Having and Being, According to Marx -- 14. The Common "Religious" Concern -- The Tradition of Mysticism -- Atheistic Religiosity -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Copyright