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

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

A point of view of love

This book provided a fair perspective of what love might be if you did not have God at the center. I thought it provided interesting insight on how consumerism in modern effects affect our reality of love and believe that it hits very closely to a faith-based center of love. Although this book is close it puts the individual at the center of one's capability to love and for someone who is naturally loving this may seem a possibility but as someone who suffers from selfishness pride and other short fallings find this very improbable to truly love without God at the center. I would recommend starting with the origin of love the Bible and other works however if you're looking for a secular view or to understand a secular view this is a good starting point.

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.

Very real and informative

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

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.

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?

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.