The Art of Loving

By: Erich Fromm

Narrated by: Nathan McMillan

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 astonishingly 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 compounded of 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.

©2006 Erich Fromm (P)2020 Erich Fromm

Incredible

Highly dense and informative yet poetic in its own right. A great read for looking for articulation with love

The story

A very general way of seeing love and help you understand the way your love can have a guidance

Great Principles with a Few Economic Over Generalizations

Still very much worth the read, but the negativity, criticism, and outright incorrect assessment of the incompatibility of the principles of the free market (what the author calls Capitalism) with the principles of love makes it difficult at times. This will ring true to many with Marxist ideology rather than any idea of economic reality. Overall, I’d still recommend it. The focus on the principles of love and loving oneself & others is wonderful and fits well with his philosophical & religious discussion as well. I will undoubtedly listen to this again very soon.

A classic that holds true decades later

We know that love and capitalism are incompatible. But like Lenin once said, what is to be done?

The horrible and emotionless reading.

So hard to listen to, there where no expression, it was like hearing a robot. I know it’s not fiction, but you need expressions to listen.