2011 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Fromm provides what was at the time a new and provocative view of Marx's humanism that challenged both Soviet distortion and Western ignorance of the basic philosophical underpinning of classical Marxism. Included is also a translation Marx's Philosophical Manuscripts.
"The Revolution of Hope lives up to its title with an uplifting exploration of the definition of hope, what it truly means to be human, and steps that should be taken to promote humanization in an increasingly disconnected and technology-driven society. [The American Mental Health Foundation's Fromm titles] are timely, directly relevant to modern psychological and social issues, and bring absolutely invaluable humanist messages to temper psychology's scientific and healing discipline. Highly recommended, especially for college library collections." —Midwest Book Review First published in 1968, the year of international-student confrontation and revolution, this classic challenges readers to choose which of two roads humankind ought to take: the one, leading to a completely mechanized society with the individual a helpless cog in a machine bent on mass destruction; or the second, being the path of humanism and hope.
Analyzes our contradictory needs for community and for freedom. In this book, Fromm warns that the price of community is indeed high, and it is the individual who pays. Fascism and authoritarianism may seem like receding shadows for some, but are cruel realities for many.
" ... A manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Erich Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and aggression, and is the basis of the universal evils of greed, envy, and violence; and the being mode, which is based on love, the pleasure of sharing, and in productive activity"--Page [4] of cover
In a world in which violence in every form seems to be increasing, Erich Fromm has treated this problem with deep perception in the most original and far-reaching work of his brilliant career. Fromm asks: what is there in the conditions of human existence to lead man to the orgies of destruction and violence in which he has indulged? By drawing on the findings of anthropology, palaeontogy, psychology and history; and including striking character analyses of Stalin, Hitler and Himmler, he shows how the failure to use our capacity for love and reason results in the development of the reverse: we wish to control life absolutely, or to destroy it.
ForewordIntroductionThe Upanishads --Gautama --Shin Ichi Hisamatsu --The Bible --Heraclitus --Empedocles --Sophocles --Socrates and Plato --Aristotle --Lucretius --Epictetus --Plotinus --Sextus Empiricus --Saint Gregory of Nyssa --Saint Augustine --Saint Thomas Aquinas --Meister Eckhart --Nicolaus Cusanus --Marsillo Ficino --Pietro Popponazzi --Giovanni Pico della Mirandola --Erasmus of Rotterdam --Martin Luther --Thomas More --Juan Luis Vives --Paracelsus --Saint Teresa of Avila --Saint John of the Cross --Michel de Montaine --Rene Descartes --Baruch Spinoza --Blaise Pascal --Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz --Francis Bacon --Thomas Hobbes --John Locke --David Hume --Giambattista Vico --Jean-Jacques Rousseau --Immanuel Kant --Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel --Johann Gottfrid Herder --Jeremy Bentham --Arthur Schopenhauer --Auguste Comte --Ralph Waldo Emerson --Ludwig Feuerbach --Karl Marx --Soren Kierkegaard --Friedrch Nietzsche --William James --John Dewey --Sigmund Freud --Carl Gustav Jung --Henri Bergson --Edmund Husserl --Alfred North Whitehead --Miguel de Unamuno --Antonio Machado --Max Scheler --Nicolas Berdyaev --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin --Jose Ortega y Gasset --Martin Heidegger --Francisco Romero --Lewis Mumford --Erich Fromm --Jean Paul Sartre --Simone Weil --Edith Stein --Adam Schaff --David RiesmanBibliography
It was Erich Fromm's conviction that psychoanalysis needs to retain Freud's essential insight into the unconscious while replacing his mechanistic-materialistic philosophy with a humanistic one. In this book, never before published in English, Fromm presents such a revision of psychoanalysis, one that is both humanistic and dialectical. The Revision of Psychoanalysis is Fromm's long-expected account of his own personal way of understanding and practicing psychoanalysis. Of special interest to today's readers are his continuing efforts to understand the meaning of sexuality, his critique of Herbert Marcuse's vision of psychoanalysis, and the implications of a Freudian analytical social psychology for the reform of social arrangements. The book is essential reading for psychologists and for social and political theorists in many disciplines. For psychoanalysts, it provides Fromm's most provocative and unique recommendations for the revision of psychoanalysis.
Erich Fromm fought long and hard for the rights and freedoms of the individual. He also recognized that fundamental to this pursuit is the promotion of self-knowledge. In encouraging people to analyze their own behavior, Fromm identified the crucial link between psychology and ethics that underpins all our actions. Moreover, he saw in this a way out of the meaningless impasse which he regarded as the plight of the modern human race. The task that Fromm sets himself, therefore, in Man for Himself is no less than to identify "what man is, how he ought to live, and how the tremendous energies within man can be released and used productively." The resulting book is ample witness to Fromm's success. It makes for exciting, illuminating, even life-changing reading.
When he was 26, the great psychoanalyst and philosopher Erich Fromm abandoned Judaism, though he himself was descended from a long line of rabbis and the product of a devout Jewish upbringing. This title contains essays that show a man who would eventually establish himself as a major thinker, producing some of that era's astute political works.
Fromm's essential writings, some never before published, in a compact volume. Selections include: "Human Alienation," "Origins of the Having Mode of Existence", "To Have or to Be?", and "Essentials of a Life Between Having and Being".