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The Art of Loving

By: Erich Fromm
Narrated by: Nathan McMillan
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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.

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Profound Insights • Beautiful Framework • Good Recording Quality • Philosophical Depth • Practical Wisdom
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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.

The horrible and emotionless reading.

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

Very real and informative

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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.

Phenomenal

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Highly dense and informative yet poetic in its own right. A great read for looking for articulation with love

Incredible

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A very general way of seeing love and help you understand the way your love can have a guidance

The story

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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.

Great Principles with a Few Economic Over Generalizations

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We know that love and capitalism are incompatible. But like Lenin once said, what is to be done?

A classic that holds true decades later

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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.

GREAT TOPIC, GREAT BOOK

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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

Hidden Menu of Love

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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.

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

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