On Disobedience and other essays

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ERICH FROMM ON DISOBEDIENCE and other essays This collection of essays, gathered together by the author just before his death in 1980, forms a moving personal manifesto that summarizes the life work of one of the twentieth century's great psychological and social thinkers. Dr Fromm sets out his assessment of the basic requirements for a fully humán life (the need for relatedness, for rootedness, for transcendence, and identity), and criticizes the social structures which form obstacles to their fulfilment. He describes how the technically advanced nations have produced a new type of humán being: homo consumens, an "eternal suckling" given overto possessing and consuming, but lonely, bored, and anxious - and a dangerously obedient "organization man." Fromm sees both capitalism and totalitarian communism moving toward a life-denying industrial bureaucracy, and berates the one system for ignoring, the other for betraying, the ideals of a true humanistic socialism in which people take... Tovább

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ERICH FROMM ON DISOBEDIENCE and other essays This collection of essays, gathered together by the author just before his death in 1980, forms a moving personal manifesto that summarizes the life work of one of the twentieth century's great psychological and social thinkers. Dr Fromm sets out his assessment of the basic requirements for a fully humán life (the need for relatedness, for rootedness, for transcendence, and identity), and criticizes the social structures which form obstacles to their fulfilment. He describes how the technically advanced nations have produced a new type of humán being: homo consumens, an "eternal suckling" given overto possessing and consuming, but lonely, bored, and anxious - and a dangerously obedient "organization man." Fromm sees both capitalism and totalitarian communism moving toward a life-denying industrial bureaucracy, and berates the one system for ignoring, the other for betraying, the ideals of a true humanistic socialism in which people take precedence over things, life over property, and work over capital. In this book Dr Fromm eloquently affirms the noblest aspirations of the humán spirit in his praise for such figures as the heroically "disobedient" Bertrand Russell and in his discussion of the spiritual challenge of aging where here, in a special way, his thoughts are oriented toward love, creation, and life. Erich Fromm is best known for the development of his lucid, provocative ideas on love, transcendence, and the psychology of being in his previous books, The Art of Loving and The Fearof Freedom. Vissza