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This list contains many videos pertaining to one of the most profound thinkers of recent times. Author, psychoanalyst, teacher, devoted humanist and social philosopher, Erich Fromm was a modern Renaissance man, a voice of reason that emerged out of a turbulent century when humanity faced some of the worst crises in its history.
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World famous from the 1940's to the 1970's when his best-selling books such as Escape From Freedom, The Art of Loving, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness and To Have or To Be? were published, Fromm, as author Gerhard Knapp has written, "consistently devoted himself and worked to one single goal: the propagation of a great visionary hope for a better and more dignified life for all of humanity."
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Synthesizing concepts of psychology, psychoanalysis, literature, sociology, humanism, ethics, Buddhism, Christian Mysticism, Marxism, Judaism and socialism into an erudite and original ideology, Fromm was nevertheless able to reach a huge general audience directly through his popular books. The Art of Loving, his inquiry into the nature of love, being published in over 30 languages and selling 37 million copies worldwide.
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He saw himself as "an atheistic mystic, a socialist who is in opposition to most socialist and communist parties, a psychoanalyst who is a very unorthodox Freudian." This particularity of thought was one of the reasons that led Michael Mccobby, an ex-research assistant and co-author, to point out that he saw two dominant voices emerging from Erich Fromm: one analytic and the other prophetic.
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At his most analytic, Mccobby explained, Fromm conceived of his work as a method to help suffering people liberate themselves from crippling fear and to realize more of their creative potential. At his most prophetic, Fromm's mission was to bring about a messianic age of peace, love and human solidarity.
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This Playlist contains some bits and pieces of the legacy of Erich Fromm. Many videos here contained, will appear in abbreviated form but within a narrative context in m a documentary that I am directing on Erich Fromm. The documentary will explore Fromm's ideas. It will trace the events of his life that helped shape his unique thinking. It will explore and discuss his changing perspectives, personal life and various writings. In so doing, it will show that his relevance only grows as time goes by and humanity faces the challenges of this new century.
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