Erich Fromm
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
On Erich Fromm
A quiet reading of Fromm's demanding claim that love must be learned like an art.

Portrait: Erich Fromm in 1974. Müller-May, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.
Erich Fromm was a German-born psychoanalyst and social philosopher who fled the Nazis and spent his life asking why people give up their freedom. Escape from Freedom traced the appeal of authoritarianism to the loneliness of modern individuals, and The Art of Loving argued that love is not a feeling we fall into but an art that has to be learned and practised.
1 episode
On Erich Fromm
A quiet reading of Fromm's demanding claim that love must be learned like an art.

1875–1961

1856–1939

1842–1910

1924–1974

1898–1981