To Have or To Be? / Edition 1

ISBN-13:	9781780936802
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/27/2013
Series:	Bloomsbury Revelations
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	149,313
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and aggression, and is the basis of the universal evils of greed, envy, and violence; and the being mode, which is based on love, the pleasure of sharing, and in productive activity. To Have Or to Be? is a brilliant program for socioeconomic change.