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Dan posted a review at 2009-11-06 13:26:51.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-10-24 22:17:35.
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essential reading
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Tomasz posted a review at 2009-10-19 11:56:09.
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Very nice and a very good read. I loved it. The ideas are great. However the medicine prescribed is bad. To much of Plato (dictatorship of the "wise" elite - but who will choose and supervise them?). I think it was naive in terms of solutions when it was written, it is even more naive now. I'm too young to remember the socialism in my country as really opressing (it was more comic than tragic, though there were victims), but it certainly was not the solution to consumptionism.
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Luis posted a review at 2009-09-20 20:53:03.
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muy bueno :-) ... como todos los de Fromm
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A reader posted a review at 2009-07-30 15:43:51.
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reveals the true "evils" of our society. difficult to embrace but tremendously inspiring.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-21 03:59:44.
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Good that I have found and read this book when I was 16 or 17... so it kept me on the good road... Wish I had it so I could RE-read it again (in fact all books of Erich Fromm!)
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A reader posted a review at 2008-12-01 14:42:09.
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This is a wonderful book and deeply thought provoking. Fromm's incorporation of Buddhist ideas and the mysticism of Master Eckhart is quite interesting. However, I thought the final sections were marred by some rather fantastical thinking about government's ability to pursue an agenda of radical change. In emphasizing this, Fromm falls prey to the very totalitarian thought he had argued so persuasively against.
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A reader posted a review at 2008-11-15 15:55:23.
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Surrealismus
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Christina posted a review at 2008-11-01 23:12:26.
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An enlightened, sublime, 'awake' (instead of dreaming) utopia! This book must be on the shelf of every one who is above starvation and concerns human well-being. We have shamefully abandoned the City of God for City of Progress. Now wake up from the slumber of passivity, let the new society be City of Being! Oh, no more 'no answer' for the answerless questions -- of Pascal's misery without God, Kant's groundwork for morals, Kierkegaard's existential commitment! The notion of religiosity is so brilliant -- "a group-shared system of thought and action that offers the individual a frame of orientation and object of devotion"! The passion play among the fourfold has at last begun. I particularly love Fromm's apology and critique of Marxism, which has long been misrepresented in both East and West. Soviet Union and China are no communist/ socialist countries. They defeat Marx's noble ideal by 1) further antagonizing other classes 2) spinning around "mass consumption for the whole population" -- exactly the same consumerism as capitalism gives to a minority. The solution may take the form of participatory democracy, consumer strike, Cultural Council, shared information/ knowledge, etc.
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ElJay posted a review at 2008-09-22 11:41:18.
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The sub title gives a more clear view onto the content of the sociologic psychologist Erich Fromm: The emotional/mental/psychic basics of a new society was written and published 1st 1976 in the US-amerikan book series World Perspectives. The book is a philosophical antropology of our modern societies and about two social (organisational) structures of "having" or "being". "To Have or to Be?" is E. Fromm's most famous work... ElJay
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