Ebook {Epub PDF} Life Between Having and Being by Erich Fromm

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. As Erich Fromm puts it in this posthumous publication, ours is "a life between having and being." The alternative states of having and being, as basic orientations of our lives and character, were subjects Fromm confronted in To Have Or To Be? and The Art of Being (both available from Continuum). German-American Social Scientist, Doctor, Writer Erich Fromm's book contains his essays about his "life philosophy". Fromm's criticism of modern capitalism in culture, in philosophy and in ethics form his book's (his writings') soul. Fromm's questions about the modern human being's social and private life sign on "to have or to be question", "the destructiveness of capitalism" and "the fear from freedom in /5.

Fromm's essential writings, some never before published, in a compact volume. Selections include#58; "Human Alienation," "Origins of the Having Mode of Existence", "To Have or to Be?", and "Essentials of a Life Between Having and Being". As Fromm points out, ours is "a life between having and being"—between mere having and healthy being, between destructiveness and creativity, between narcissism and productive self-understanding, between passivity and the joy of positive activity. The alternatives of having and being are basic orientations of our character and determine our behavior. Following Fromm's () and Rand's () theory, a scale of 51 items on attitudes towards the Being, Doing and Having "Modes of Existence" has been constructed (Reichenberg ). Our objectives are two-fold: first, an examination, in parallel, of the validity of the scale with two methods: Factor Analysis and Facet Theory.

Paperback$ 16 Used from$ New from$ As Fromm points out, ours is “a life between having and being”—between mere having and healthy being, between destructiveness and creativity, between narcissism and productive self-understanding, between passivity and the joy of positive activity. The alternatives of having and being are basic orientations of our character and determine our behavior. German-American Social Scientist, Doctor, Writer Erich Fromm's book contains his essays about his "life philosophy". Fromm's criticism of modern capitalism in culture, in philosophy and in ethics form his book's (his writings') soul. Fromm's questions about the modern human being's social and private life sign on "to have or to be question", "the destructiveness of capitalism" and "the fear from freedom in social relations". The Art of Living: The Great Humanistic Philosopher Erich Fromm on Having vs. Being and How to Set Ourselves Free from the Chains of Our Culture “Full humanization requires the breakthrough from the possession-centered to the activity-centered orientation, from selfishness and egotism to solidarity and altruism.”.