One of the most famous books of the outstanding thinker of the XNUMXth century, in which he diagnoses Western society: the desire for possession has replaced the desire for being in it. Possession and being are seen as two alternative (but not equivalent) strategies of life.
One of the most famous books of the outstanding thinker of the XNUMXth century, in which he diagnoses Western society: the desire for possession has replaced the desire for being in it. Possession and being are seen as two alternative (but not equivalent) strategies of life. The very question “to have or to be” is rhetorical for Fromm: as he convincingly shows, the desire to possess emasculates the main content of the multicolored process of human life and mortifies the personality.
AST, 314 p.