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To Have or To Be »

Authors: Erich Fromm
ISBN-13: 9780826417381, ISBN-10: 0826417388
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Date Published: September 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Erich Fromm

Book Synopsis

To have or to be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than 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. To Have Or to Be? is a brilliant program for socioeconomic change.

	World perspectives - what this series means
	Introduction : the great promise, its failure, and new alternatives	1
Pt. 1	Understanding the difference between having and being
I	A first glance	13
II	Having and being in daily experience	24
III	Having and being in the Old and New Testaments and in the writings of master Eckhart	40
Pt. 2	Analyzing the fundamental differences between the two modes of existence
IV	What is the having mode?	57
V	What is the being mode?	71
VI	Further aspects of having and being	88
Pt. 3	The new man and the new society
VII	Religion, character, and society	109
VIII	Conditions for human change and the features of the new man	137
IX	Features of the new society	141