To Have or to Be? - Kkachi Library 114

Author Erich Fromm · Publisher Kkachi · Published 2020-02-03 · ISBN 9788972917038

About the Book

This book, "To Have or to Be?", is particularly suitable as an introduction to Fromm's world of thought. Avoiding specialized academic material, the author summarizes the thought processes he had explored more rigorously (and sometimes verbosely) in his previous works, presenting them clearly and accessibly in this book. Furthermore, he compiles various fragments of his confession in a concise and condensed form from a fresh perspective. ...Perhaps future scholars will interpret Fromm—like those great humanists at the end of the Wars of Religion—as belonging to the lineage of spokespersons for that "third force," one who, with courageous ideals, contributed to all of us becoming more tolerant, helpful, less demanding, and peace-loving human beings. And perhaps the humanistic resistance movement can expect to take root.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction: The Great Promise, Its Unfulfillment, and New Choices

Part 1: Understanding the Difference Between Having and Being
1. General Considerations
2. Having and Being in Everyday Experience
3. Having and Being in the Old and New Testaments and in the Writings of Meister Eckhart

Part 2: Analysis of the Fundamental Difference Between the Two Modes of Existence
4. The Having Mode of Existence
5. The Being Mode of Existence
6. Other Aspects of Having and Being

Part 3: The New Man and the New Society
7. Religion, Character, and Society
8. Prerequisites for Changing Man and the Essential Characteristics of the New Man
9. Characteristics of the New Society

Afterword by Ruthe Nanda Anshen
Translator's Afterword
Bibliography
Index of Names