On Being Human

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Author:

Fromm, Erich

ISBN:

978-0-8264-1005-4

Publication Date:

Mar 1997

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Academic & Professional

Imprint:

Continuum

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $51.95

Book Description:

Any attempt to identify the thread that runs through the late Erich Fromm's writings will soon uncover an unequivocally humanistic world view. From the 1930s on, this was Fromm's guiding principle. It signified Fromm's break with the Frankfurt School: Marcuse, Adorno and Horkheimer. This posthumous volume includes writings from one of Fromm's most fertile periods--the 1960s. These writings concentrate on humanistic science, socialism, religion, and psychoanalysis. They are from...
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Book Details

Pages:	180
Detailed Subjects:	Philosophy / Movements / Humanism Psychology / Social Psychology Psychology / Psychotherapy / Humanistic
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5.5 x 8.5 x 0.42 Inches
Book Weight:	0.53 Pounds

Author Biography

Fromm, Erich (Author)

Psychologist and philosopher Erich Fromm was born in Frankfurt, Germany on March 23, 1900. He received a Ph.D in sociology from the University of Heidelberg in 1922 and finished his psychoanalytical training at the Psychoanalytical Institute in Berlin in 1930. He started his own clinical practice and joined the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. In 1934, he moved to New York and became a professor at Columbia University. In 1950, he moved to Mexico City and became a professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, where he created a psychoanalytic section at the medical school. He retired from there in 1965 and moved to Muralto, Switzerland in 1974.

Throughout his life, Fromm maintained a clinical practice and wrote books. His writings were notable for both their social and political commentary and their philosophical and psychological underpinnings. He became known for linking human personality types with socioeconomic and political structures. His most popular book, The Art of Loving, was first published in 1956 and became an international bestseller. He died on March 18, 1980.

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