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Life Itself Is an Art: The Life and Work of Erich Fromm

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rainer FunkSeries:Psychoanalytic HorizonsPublish date:2019-06-13Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781501351440ISBN-10:1501351443UPC:9781501351440Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, Modern, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:German, 20th CenturySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCPRY1RJFP
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) is known to most readers as the author of the international bestseller The Art of Loving (1956). What may be less widely known is that Fromm was a social psychoanalyst whose psychoanalytic theories, developed around a humanistic concept of man and society, have had a profound impact on many fields and disciplines: on social life and societal organization, on politics, on religion, on psychotherapy and, last but not least, on the practice of mindfulness.

Rainer Funk was Erich Fromm's last assistant. He wrote his dissertation about Fromm, was designated by Fromm's last will to be his sole literary executor, and is the editor of Fromm's writings. From his very intimate knowledge of Fromm's life and ideas, and his access to an archive that includes 6,000 letters, Funk introduces Fromm's central concepts and examines them in relation to Fromm's lived experiences and to his idea that life itself is an art.

The question of "the art of living" runs through all of the chapters, from the Introduction, in which Funk describes meeting Fromm for the first time in 1972, to the last chapter, in which Funk reflects on the impact of Fromm's social-psychoanalytic writings and his efforts to live well.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781501351440ISBN-10:1501351443UPC:9781501351440Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, Modern, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:German, 20th CenturySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCPRY1RJFP
Rainer Funk is Director of the Erich Fromm Institute Tuebingen, Co-Director of the Erich Fromm Study Center at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) in Berlin, and a practicing psychoanalyst based in Tuebingen, Germany. He is Erich Fromm's sole Literary Executor and among his publications are the 10-volume German edition of Erich Fromm Collected Works (1980 and 1981; expanded to 12-volumes in 1999).
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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