The Art of Being

This classic work by psychologist and social philosopher Eric Fromm builds upon his previous popular book To Have or to Be? The Art of Being teaches us to avoid the tantalizing illusions of our consumer-driven world by learning to function as a whole person from a state of inner completeness or being. The transition from an identity of having to being creates a state of enlightened psychological and spiritual happiness. Fromm observes that the modern person is less a self-reflective being than a composite of data promoted by the mass media, and he encourages us to pursue true self-awareness beyond simple political, ideological, and religious clichés. By learning to be centered in the self, the individual is less swayed by the endless pressures and dissatisfactions of the culture of consumerism.

• The Art of Loving
• To Have or To Be? (Bloomsbury Revelations)
• Escape from Freedom
• The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
• The Sane Society
• Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
• The Art of Listening
• The Heart of Man: Its Genius for Good and Evil
• On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying "No" to Power (Harperperennial Modern Thought)
• The Essential Fromm: Life Between Having and Being