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You Shall Be as Gods
- A Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and Its Tradition
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Erich Fromm's innovative analysis of the Old Testament as a striking early example of radical humanism. The Old Testament is one of the most carefully studied books in the world’s history. It is also one of the most misunderstood. This founding text of the world’s three largest religions is also, Erich Fromm argues, an impressive radical humanist text. He sees the stories of mankind’s transition from divided clans to united brotherhood as a tribute to the human power to overcome. Filled with hopeful symbolism, You Shall Be as Gods shows how the Old Testament and its tradition is an inspiring ode to human potential.
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- D. Hansen
- 11-24-16
Fascinating new ideas
Would you listen to You Shall Be as Gods again? Why?
I actually did listen to the first few chapters a second time, before proceeding with the rest, to focus more on the details of what was said.
What was one of the most memorable moments of You Shall Be as Gods?
That the Bible/God are about eliminating idol worship.
What does Allan Robertson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
The presentation was impressive. It wasn't just reading, it included styles that led me to think this is how Fromm himself might have expressed his ideas.
Any additional comments?
Agree or disagree with his opinions about the Bible and religion, it's thought-provoking and scholarly in its insights.
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Thanks Eric
great insights into old testament, and great insight into Fromm as a thinker and man of his time. Super impressive scholarship.
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Prescient for our worlds' conflict against
The evil so evidenced from the macro of Islamic terror reigning through horrific brutality of the innocent to the micro experienced in our daily dealing with more and more seemingly soulless human beings. And thus chipping away at ones inner core values of what shape us into beings for good.
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- Narrated by: Phil Holland
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
In Man for Himself, Erich Fromm examines the confusion of modern women and men who, because they lack faith in any principle by which life ought to be guided, become the helpless prey forces both within and without. From the broad, interdisciplinary perspective that marks Fromm's distinguished oeuvre, he shows that psychology cannot divorce itself from the problems of philosophy and ethics, and that human nature cannot be understood without understanding the values and moral conflicts that confront us all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Key Guide to the Art of Living
- By Mehran Asdigha on 05-11-21
By: Erich Fromm
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Escape from Freedom
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Anthony Haden Salerno
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 389
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 318
lf a man cannot stand freedom, he will probably turn fascist. This, in the fewest possible words, is the essential argument in this modem classic, Escape from Freedom. The author, Erich Fromm, is a distinguished psychologist, late of Berlin and Heidelberg, now of New York City.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why is this not required reading in high school?
- By Xander on 09-07-16
By: Erich Fromm
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To Have or to Be?
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 65
To Have or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Fromm's thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and aggression, and is the basis of the universal evils of greed, envy, and violence; and the being mode, which is based on love, the pleasure of sharing, and in productive activity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I recommend listening carefully
- By JL Bate on 07-02-22
By: Erich Fromm
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The Heart of Man
- Its Genius for Good and Evil
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Sam Bogart
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 14
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13
Fromm's follow-up to Escape from Freedom and The Art of Loving is a keen study of violence on a small scale leading to the specter of mass destruction.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Audible, please screen your voice actors
- By Anonymous User on 11-16-18
By: Erich Fromm
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The Art of Loving
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Nathan McMillan
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 383
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 291
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 293
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.
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2 out of 5 stars
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How this book got such good marks is beyond me.
- By Wyson store on 10-31-20
By: Erich Fromm
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The Art of Being
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 851
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 680
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 666
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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very much an excerpt
- By Walter on 08-15-12
By: Erich Fromm
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Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: William Neenan
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
As the title suggests, Fromm's is a wholeheartedly balanced view, inspired by great admiration for Freud's achievements but with a clear understanding of the preconceptions which blinkered his vision - notably those stemming from the bourgeois materialism of his society, his certainty of the inferiority of women and his inability to conceive of psychical phenomena for which physiological roots could not be demonstrated.
By: Erich Fromm
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May Man Prevail?
- An Inquiry into the Facts and Fictions of Foreign Policy
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Daniel May
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
The early 1960s were a time of existential unease across the world. The constant threat of a nuclear bomb - and of mutually assured destruction - led to a palpable sense that nuclear holocaust could occur any day. It was in this Cold War environment that social psychologist Erich Fromm wrote May Man Prevail?
By: Erich Fromm
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The Revolution of Hope
- Toward a Humanized Technology
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Sam Bogart
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance2.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7
First published in 1968, the year of international-student confrontation and revolution, this classic challenges listeners to choose which of two roads humankind ought to take: the one, leading to a completely mechanized society with the individual a helpless cog in a machine bent on mass destruction; or the second, being the path of humanism and hope.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Review
- By Maria Theo on 12-09-19
By: Erich Fromm
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Beyond Freud: From Individual to Social Psychoanalysis
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Ed Waldorph
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Throughout his scientific work, Erich Fromm pursued the twin goal of uncovering the social unconscious of the individual as well as the unconscious of social entities. As Fromm wrote in 1936, "The problem within psychology and sociology is the dialectic intertwining of natural and historical factors. Freud has wrongly based psychology totally on natural factors."
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5 out of 5 stars
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We were fortunate to have had such a wise being to guide us
- By KC on 08-19-23
By: Erich Fromm
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Still the Best Hope
- Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
- By: Dennis Prager
- Narrated by: Erik Bergman
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 561
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 505
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Story5 out of 5 stars 504
In this visionary book, Dennis Prager, one of America's most original thinkers, contends that humanity confronts a monumental choice. The world must decide between American values and its two oppositional alternatives: Islamism and European-style democratic socialism. Prager makes the case for the American value system as the most viable program ever devised to produce a good society. Those values are explained here more clearly and persuasively than ever before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Important Book, should be required reading
- By Beth on 07-18-12
By: Dennis Prager
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Is Reality Optional?
- And Other Essays
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 128
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 117
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Story5 out of 5 stars 116
Thomas Sowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of controversial essays, and captures his thoughts on politics, race, and common sense with a section at the end for thought-provoking quotes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- By Anonymous User on 09-28-22
By: Thomas Sowell
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Jung's Map of the Soul
- An Introduction
- By: Murray Stein
- Narrated by: Larry Earnhart
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 203
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 199
More than a mere overview, the book offers listeners a strong grounding in the basic principles of Jung's analytical psychology in addition to illuminating insights.