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![]() To Have or To Be?
Fromm, Erich
Publisher: Bantam, New York, USAYear First Published: {12464 To Have or To Be? TO HAVE OR TO BE? Fromm, Erich Bantam New York USA Fromm calls for a social and psychological revolution. He argues that two modes of existence are in fierce conflict: the Having Mode, dedicated to material possession and property, agressiveness, personal gain, and war, and the Being Mode, sufused with love, the spirit of caring and a regard for humanity, which means contentment, a pleasant sufficiency of the mean to life (but no more) and a profound kinship with nature. 1976 1989 203pp BC12464s-ToHaveToBe.jpg B Book 0-553-24077-3 150.195 - <br> <br> <br> <br>Table of Contents <br> <br>World Perspectives-What This Series Means <br>-Ruth Nanda Anshen <br> <br>Foreword <br>Introduction: The Great Promise, Its Failure, and <br>New Alternatives <br>The End of an Illusion <br>Why Did the Great Promise Fail? <br>The Economic Necessity for Human Change <br>Is There an Alternative to Catastrophe? <br>Part One: Understanding the Difference <br>Between Having and Being <br>A First Glance <br>The Importance of the Difference Between Having and Being <br>Examples in Various Poetic Expressions <br>Idiomatic Changes <br>Origin of the Terms <br>Philosophical Concepts of Being <br>Having and Consuming <br>Having and Being in Daily <br>Experience <br>Learning <br>Remembering <br>Conversing <br>Reading <br>Exercising Authority <br>Having Knowledge and Knowing <br>Faith <br>Loving <br>Having and Being in the Old and <br>New Testaments and in the <br>Writings of Master Eckhart <br>The Old Testament <br>The New Testament <br>Master Eckhart (1260-c. 1327) <br>Part Two: Analyzing the Fundamental <br>Differences Between the Two Modes <br>of Existence <br>What is the Having Mode? <br>The Acquisitive Society-Basis for the Having Mode <br>The Nature of Having <br>Other Factors Supporting the Having Mode <br>The Having Mode and the Anal Character <br>Asceticism and Equality <br>Existential Having <br>What is the Being Mode? <br>Being Active <br>Activity and Passivity <br>Being as Reality <br>The Will to Give, to Share, to Sacrifice <br>Further Aspects of Having and <br>Being <br>Security-Insecurity <br>Solidarity-Antagonism <br>Joy-Pleasure <br>Sin and Forgiveness <br>Fear of Dying-Affirmation of Living <br>Here, Now-Past, Future <br>Part Three: The New Man and the New <br>Society <br>Religion, Character, and Society <br>The Foundations of Social Character <br>Social Character and "Religious" Needs <br>Is the Western World Christian? <br>The Humanist Protest <br>Conditions for Human Change <br>And the Features of the New Man <br>The New Man <br>Features of the New Society <br>A New Science of Man <br>The New Society: Is There a Reasonable Chance? <br> <br>Bibliography <br>Index CX6604 1 true true false CX6604.htm [0xc0002310b0 0xc00062cd50 0xc0008df440 0xc00073c0f0 0xc000276720 0xc000c1d260 0xc001630f30 0xc0006358f0] Cx} Year Published: 1989 Pages: 203pp ISBN: 0-553-24077-3 Dewey: 150.195 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX6604 Fromm calls for a social and psychological revolution. He argues that two modes of existence are in fierce conflict: the Having Mode, dedicated to material possession and property, agressiveness, personal gain, and war, and the Being Mode, sufused with love, the spirit of caring and a regard for humanity, which means contentment, a pleasant sufficiency of the mean to life (but no more) and a profound kinship with nature. Abstract: - Table of Contents World Perspectives-What This Series Means -Ruth Nanda Anshen Foreword Introduction: The Great Promise, Its Failure, and New Alternatives The End of an Illusion Why Did the Great Promise Fail? The Economic Necessity for Human Change Is There an Alternative to Catastrophe? Part One: Understanding the Difference Between Having and Being A First Glance The Importance of the Difference Between Having and Being Examples in Various Poetic Expressions Idiomatic Changes Origin of the Terms Philosophical Concepts of Being Having and Consuming Having and Being in Daily Experience Learning Remembering Conversing Reading Exercising Authority Having Knowledge and Knowing Faith Loving Having and Being in the Old and New Testaments and in the Writings of Master Eckhart The Old Testament The New Testament Master Eckhart (1260-c. 1327) Part Two: Analyzing the Fundamental Differences Between the Two Modes of Existence What is the Having Mode? The Acquisitive Society-Basis for the Having Mode The Nature of Having Other Factors Supporting the Having Mode The Having Mode and the Anal Character Asceticism and Equality Existential Having What is the Being Mode? Being Active Activity and Passivity Being as Reality The Will to Give, to Share, to Sacrifice Further Aspects of Having and Being Security-Insecurity Solidarity-Antagonism Joy-Pleasure Sin and Forgiveness Fear of Dying-Affirmation of Living Here, Now-Past, Future Part Three: The New Man and the New Society Religion, Character, and Society The Foundations of Social Character Social Character and "Religious" Needs Is the Western World Christian? The Humanist Protest Conditions for Human Change And the Features of the New Man The New Man Features of the New Society A New Science of Man The New Society: Is There a Reasonable Chance? Bibliography Index Subject Headings |