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

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.

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

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.

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

Detailing Love, it's origins, expressions, misunderstandings, and how we "wield" it.

I didn't dislike anything. I actually felt like it was really intense and went really quick. I need to look into this work again.

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.