The Continuing Relevance of Erich Fromm
Rainer Funk
Copyright © 2009 by Dr. Rainer Funk, Ursrainer Ring 24, D-72076 Tübingen, E-Mail:
frommfunk[at-symbol]aol.com - Translation from German by Dr. Bruce Allen, Tuebingen
Rainer Funk
Copyright © 2009 by Dr. Rainer Funk, Ursrainer Ring 24, D-72076 Tübingen, E-Mail:
frommfunk[at-symbol]aol.com - Translation from German by Dr. Bruce Allen, Tuebingen
Fromm's eminent topicality for us all shall be demonstrated by taking a look at six of his discoveries and insights concerning our contemporary dilemma:
- Marketing as a new structural principle,
- Having instead of being,
- A preference for enacted (artificial) reality,
- Collective narcissistic phantasies of grandeur and contempt for the weak,
- the fatal attraction of the lifeless and the reified, and
- Insight into the art of living.





