The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet
Lawrence Friedman, Anke SchreiberErich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. This biography by Lawrence J. Friedman revisits his life and thought. Readers learn for the first time about Fromm's direct contact with high officials in the United States government during geopolitical crises as well as his differences with Freud, rapport with Neo-Freudians, and friendships with artists and theologians. In The Lives of Erich Fromm, Friedrich portrays an authentic, spiritual man who made the twentieth century more humane than it might have been.
The first comprehensive biography of Erich Fromm, capturing the personal, social, clinical, philosophic, and political aspects of an influential figure.