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The Art of Loving

by Erich Fromm

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Love as a practice

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Love as a practice

Erich Fromm approaches love as a capacity to be learned, linking it to maturity, self-knowledge, courage, practice, and understanding. The book widens the subject beyond romantic relationships, considering love between parents and children, brotherly and erotic love, self-love, and love of God. Its organizing idea is that love takes more than feeling: it involves developing insight and the ability to relate to others. That framework gives the discussion both a psychological and philosophical scope.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in psychological and philosophical perspectives on love.
  • Readers seeking a discussion that includes family, erotic, self-directed, and religious forms of love.
  • Readers exploring love as a capacity connected with personal development and practice.

Themes

Love as a learnable capacityMaturity and self-knowledgeRomantic and familial relationshipsSelf-love and religious love

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Book overview

"Every line is packed with common sense, compassion, and realism." -- Fortune

The renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm has helped millions of men and women achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for love. In this frank and candid book, he explores the ways in which this extraordinary emotion can alter the whole course of your life.

Most of us are unable to develop our capacities for love on the only level that really counts: a love that is accompanied by maturity, self-knowledge, and courage. Learning to love, like other arts, demands practice and concentration. Even more than any other art it demands genuine insight and understanding.

In this classic work, Fromm explores love in all its aspects--not only romantic love, steeped in false conceptions and lofty expectations, but also love of parents, children, brotherly love, erotic love, self-love, and the love of God.

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