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Escape from freedom

Fromm, E. (1941). Escape from freedom. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Fromm's first important work, this book was once required reading for anybody who wished to be considered educated.

The art of loving

Fromm, E. (1956). The art of loving. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Perhaps the most widely read of all Fromm's works, this book boldly suggests that love is the answer to the problems of human existence.

The revision of psychoanalysis

Fromm, E. (1992). The revision of psychoanalysis. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Published a dozen years after Fromm's death, this book clearly discusses areas in which Fromm agreed and disagreed with Freud.

On being human

Fromm, E. (1994). On being human. New York: Continuum.
Complied from lectures and other sources several years after his death, this book demonstrates Fromm's humanistic view of science, socialism, industrial society, religion, management, psychoanalysis, and ethics.

Love, sexuality, and matriarchy: About gender

Fromm, E. (1997). Love, sexuality, and matriarchy: About gender. New York: Fromm International.
A compilation of Fromm's writings on love, sex, and gender, this book presents the hypothesis that gender differences are a result of historical and cultural conditions and not anatomical differences.

Erich Fromm: His life and ideas. An illustrated biography

Funk, R. (1999). Erich Fromm: His life and ideas. An illustrated biography. New York: Continuum.
For students interested in the life and work of Erich Fromm, this book will be a joy to examine with its great many pictures and insightful text.

The art of living: Erich Fromm's life and works

Knapp, G. P. (1989). The art of living: Erich Fromm's life and works. New York: Peter Lang.
This book presents a critical appraisal of the life and work of Fromm, a man the author calls "one of this century's most influential thinkers." Knapp's book is more accessible than Daniel Burston's (1991) The Legacy of Erich Fromm and more readable and complete than Dale Ortmeyer's (1998) Revisiting Erich Fromm.







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