To Have Or To Be?

Foreword

Introduction: The Great Promise, Its Failure, and New Alternatives

Part 1: Understanding the Difference between Having and Being

I. A First Glance

II. Having and Being in Daily Experience

III. Having and Being in the Old and New Testaments and in the Writings of Master Eckhart

Part 2: Analyzing the Fundamental Differences between the Two Modes of Existence

IV. What Is the Having Mode?

V. What Is the Being Mode?

VI. Further Aspects of Having and Being

Part 3: The New Man and the New Society

VII. Religion, Character, and Society

VIII. Conditions for Human Change and the Features of the New Man

IX. Features of the New Society

Bibliography

Index

Born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Erich Fromm (1900-1980) studied sociology and psychoanalysis. In 1933, he emigrated as a member of the Frankfurt School of social thinkers to the United States, moved to Mexico in 1950, and spent his twilight years between 1974 and 1980 in Switzerland. His books Fear of Freedom (1941) and The Art of Loving (1956) made him famous. Other well-known books are Marx's Concept of Man, Beyond the Chains of Illusion, and The Essential Fromm.

Karl Marx (1818-1883)was a philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary activist. Oneof the most widely influential - if often controversial - thinkers of the last200 years, his books include TheCommunist Manifesto and the unfinished multi-volume work Capital.