Is Love an Art? įromm opens the first chapter by critiquing the place of love in Western society. He states that "individual love cannot be attained without the capacity to love one's neighbour, without true humility, courage, faith and discipline." He also expresses that the ideas he expresses in The Art of Loving are similar to those he has already written about in Escape from Freedom, Man for Himself, and The Sane Society. Any attempt to love another is bound to fail, if one does not commit their total personality to learning and practicing loving. In the preface, Fromm states that the book does not provide instruction in what he terms the "art of loving", but rather it argues that love, rather than a sentiment, is an artistic practice. An epigraph consisting of a quote from Paracelsus concerning the relationship between love and knowledge is included in the front matter. Love and Its Disintegration in Contemporary Western Society, and IV. The Art of Loving is divided across four chapters and a preface the chapter headings are I. Dissent published a debate between the two, and though later scholars would come to view Marcuse's arguments as being weaker than Fromm's, Marcuse's were better received within their lifetimes, and Fromm's reputation in leftist circles was permanently damaged. In 1956, the year The Art of Loving was released, Fromm's relationship with Herbert Marcuse, also a member of the Frankfurt School, also deteriorated. He left the school in the late 1930s, following a "bitter and contentious" deterioration in his relationship with Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. Fromm played a central role in the early development of the school. In 1930, Fromm was recruited to the Frankfurt School by Max Horkheimer. In this work, Fromm develops his perspective on human nature from his earlier works, Escape from Freedom and Man for Himself – principles which he revisits in many of his other major works. It was originally published as part of the World Perspectives series edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen. The Art of Loving is a 1956 book by psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm.
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