| The Art of Loving |  | Author: Erich Fromm
Publisher: Aquarian Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 146181
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 112
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ISBN: 0041570073
EAN: 9780041570076
ASIN: 0041570073
Publication Date: October 30, 1975
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 A classic to shape your life February 24, 2008
Ms. Gabrielle Gache (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is very well written. It is provocative, inspiring and gives an insight into utopia. Erich clearly knows his subject and, although in places it is rather intellectual, I found this an easy read, that required many stops to reconsider my own point of view. Every teenager could do with being given this to study at school to get more engagement and philosophising with less bigotry and racism. Just read it and make up your own mind.
A recommended read November 18, 2006
Lark (Ireland)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I nicely written book with engaging style and a good pace in its narration.
Fromm uses object relations theory and social psychology to investigate the nature of love and loving, with insights into varieties of love and loving, such as parental love, love of god, love of fellows, romantic love, self love or self regard.
I found it very interesting how he portrayed the varieties of love, society does tend to elevate some sorts above others and it can foster expectations of love that are unrealistic or unhealthy or encourage the development of unhealthy thinking about love.
I think if clarity of this kind where more popular then there would be less murder-suicides by jilted lovers, obsessive behaviour and stalking or even parents failing to treat their children as paramount.
There have been criticisms of Fromm that he is too rationalist or pours cold water upon the idea of soul seering or earth shattering love affairs, classing such ideas as neurotic, I really think that that is a very superficial and unworthy reading of this book.
A great companion to Conditions of Love, a philosophical investigation of the same topic.
 The Art of Loving January 31, 2006
serayfah (dimona , Israel)
4 out of 13 found this review helpful
this was a very inspiring and profounwriting. A must read for anyone who wants to contribute to the uplifting of the global consciousness , of true love and oneness of all beings . To understand and began to pratice the masterery of live though self love . It also gives a clear understanding of the world that has shaped our life views.
I wish I had read this 30 years ago! November 17, 2003
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
Although a short book ... 104 pages .... it has taken me a fortnight to read .... there is not a superfluous sentence in this seminal work on the nature of the "glue" which binds humans to each other ... Fromm raises questions without providing the answers ... knowing that in order to understand .. we have to find the answers within ourselves. Whilst being deeply disturbing it nevertheless enabled me to understand clearly, for the first time in my life, where I have gone wrong in the past, and, at 57 years old, has given me hope that I might just "get it right" before I am too old to enjoy life as it ought to be!Along with another seminal work ... Conditions of Love by John Armstrong ... it ought to be compulsory reading for every young adult.
a book that woke me up! July 2, 2003
dreamkev888 (Rhyl, Clwyd United Kingdom)
8 out of 18 found this review helpful
before i red this book, i was one of them poor innocent souls whos losted and waiting for answers on what is the point of life?
until i met my flat who introduced me this book, i was totally inspired by the way Erich fromm explains love, which soon answered alot of my questions on problems that i've faced with my ex girlfriends.
But most importantly this book woke me up to really face my life with hope and confident. This book has really changed my life, well am not saying it will 100% change yours, but why not give it a go, theres no harm in taking in new knowledge, like the book says "the more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love is"KYU
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