El arte de amar es una obra con la que Erich Fromm ha ayudado a varias generaciones a reflexionar sobre el amor y a responder a algunas preguntas aparentemente sencillas: que significa amar? Como desprendernos de nosotros mismos para experimentar este sentimiento...? Fromm nos explica que el amor no es solo una relac ion personal, sino un rasgo de madurez que se manifiesta en diversas formas: amor erotico, amor fraternal, amor filial, amor a uno mismo... Nos dice tambien que el amor no es algo pasajero y mecanico, como a veces nos induce a creer la sociedad de hoy. Muy al contrario, el amor...

First published in 1962 Beyond the Chains of Illusion is Fromm's landmark book about Marx and Freud. Here he delivers original readings of these hugely influential thinkers and, in doing so, offers us new ways of understanding the individual and society. Perhaps even more revealing than these readings is the insight we get into Fromm's own thought and the political and social contexts in which he formed his ideas. Including a foreword by Fromm's Literary Executor, Rainer Funk, this is unique introduction to Marx and Freud and also to Fromm's life and thought.