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  • Written by: Erich Fromm
  • Narrated by: Nathan McMillan
  • Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (32 ratings)

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The Art of Loving

Written by: Erich Fromm
Narrated by: Nathan McMillan
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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

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One of the most deep books to be read.

Highly recommend!!. This is a masterpiece. Will definitely open up new perspectives for you and will make you think. Well written from start to finish. High quality reading on Audible as well. Rare find.

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Good overall messaging - bad delivery

High school textbooks that separate different cloud types could be read with more enthusiasm than thus narrator. While the overall messaging of "love thyself" is well described and thoughtful, especially basing it off of the shortcomings of popular theorists, the overtone of theology and patriarchal simplicity is hard to overcome.

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Dry and hard to listen to

Did not enjoy this narrator. The book was on a recommended reading list, so I gave it a try. However, I couldn't get past 30 minutes of listening. I can't comment on the content much, but the beginning was very dry.

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