The Art of Loving

By: Erich Fromm

Narrated by: Nathan McMillan

Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

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

GREAT TOPIC, GREAT BOOK

Might it looks like a ver romantic topic, the art of love goes further than romanticism. This book, this piece of jewel, makes a remarkable argument on what love is from different perspectives.

Hidden Menu of Love

Fromm puts a whole new perspective to the concept of love. Totally recommended if you want to have another level of understanding of our relationships as a society

Incredible

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

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.

The story

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

Phenomenal

Fresh take on the meaning of love and how to love. I'm a rational person and thus could relate very well with Fromm's views.

Very real and informative

A great read. There is so much real life wisdom in this book, so much to ponder about it.

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.

Finally! I've been asking for this book for YEARS

I have asked for this audio book from Audible several of times for near a decade now. Its a book I wish to re-read often, but don't get to due to my limited time to read eyeball to page.

One of my favorite Fromm books, The Art of Loving is one that has one gem of insight after another, so that you can end up highlighting the whole book. In plain English, I saw an explanations for why I instinctively knew that orientations such as domination and submission aren't really love as such, as one example. This book clearly elucidates why love can either form a strong foundation for the human's personality and actions in the world, or how they can become malformed and misdirect one's energies.

Very progressive and deeply insightful for a book written in the 1950's before some of these concepts such as that of having a male and female archetype and orientation in every person (I'm guessing) may have been generally accepted. There are two sentences about homo-sexuality that I believe are misdirected, but beyond that the insights of this book are brilliant.

Thank you Audible for getting this book into my library! Now I can re-read / listen to this book to my heart's content!

The reader is pretty decent. Perhaps better than decent. I am in that overly critical stage that happens when you get an audio book that you've been waiting a long time for.

what is love?!?!?

a great book that addresses the ailments of the human condition while exploring its cure...not for shallow thinkers or slow learners...and even for the swift a manuscript due to be read a minimum of three times