Erich Fromm Interview Excerpt

Erich Fromm discusses the Having and Being modes of orientation. Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePmmD-... for a trailer of an upcoming documentary about Erich Fromm.

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[Paseosinperro]

please, im putting spanish subtitles, what he says between 0:06 and 0:12

Thanks

[Thiago Da Costa]

- I believe the narrator says: "The deuce airs of Switzerland have proved agreeable to bourgeois and revolutionary alike"

[Paseosinperro]

BTW deuce airs ??? whats that?

[Thiago Da Costa]

- I meant to write "dulce"... I think maybe he means "the sweet air" as Locarno is a very nice place with clean air and a clean atmosphere. But that's an educated guess.

[Thiago Da Costa]

- Or maybe he meant to be using the French term "douce" which also means "sweet"

[Thiago Da Costa]

- no problem - it was a bit of a tongue twister. Thanks for doing Spanish translations. all the best.

[nathalie chapron]

LISTEN to what he says :" if you base your own life on what you HAVE, then, if you lose it, you ARE nothing". This could have been said by Gandhi or by any other great man that nobody ever accused of being communists.

It is a spiritual message and I really pity the people who are not able to understand it.

[torgman]

They have palm trees in Switzerland?!

[Omer Sam]

you still didn't get the irony, you think irony as a confusion, Watch video again, look behind the interviewer, there is a buddha... sorry, I withdraw from this conversation.

[torgman]

My question is asking about the palm trees in Switzerland, for which I didn't know such trees existed there. Is that clear enough for you? I got my answer from someone less confused by my question a month ago.

[Omer Sam]

they have Buddha in Switzerland...What are you talking about?

[DIOPJR]

By the way, the Frankfurters were not "relativists." You're thinking of the irrationalists who descended from/perverted Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, like Baumler and Heidegger- both of whom were Aryans in good standing w/ the 3rd Reich. Heidegger was far more popular among French anti-realists (re: the 'relativists' in cultural theory) than any of the Frankfurters; and in fact, much of the polemics of the latter was directed against the epistemic relativism of the German existentialists.

[DIOPJR]

Jesus Christ, you fascist types are as ubiquitous as the Jewish boogeymen you imagine. I look up the Frankfurt School on youtube and there's like a hundred videos by sexually-repressed pipsqueaks explaining the subterranean "cultural Marxist" plot to destroy white masculinity, as if they're somehow the embodiment of it. Your Kevin MacDowells and other fourth-rate intellectuals are not a good cover for your creeping Hitlerism...at least the Nazis had Heidegger and Schmitt.

[OLee82]

Only in the south and very few ;-)

[Jan96106]

This work of Fromm is part of twentieth century thought that focuses on becoming as explained in my comment below.

[Jan96106]

Philosophy initially studied ontology; it studied the nature of being. Eventually a new school of thought took over, recognizing that nothing ever stays the same, everything is constantly changing, so the focus shifted to the study of becoming. This influenced all the different academic disciplines: philosophy and theology (process theology), psychology and literature (if we are constantly changing is there a self that remains constant and how can an ever changing text having meaning).

[Jan96106]

I think you were right the first time. I think he said deuce. It doesn't make sense to me, but perhaps he meant the two (or double) airs of Switzerland as he then goes on to mention two different types of people the airs attract.