Volume 4, Number 5 · April 8, 1965
The Heart of Erich Fromm
By Abraham Kaplan
The Heart of Man: Its Genius for Good and Evil
by Erich Fromm, Religious Perspectives, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen
Harper & Row, 156 pp., $3.75
Professional philosophers have seldom done all the work of philosophy. (There are people who doubt whether today they are doing any of it.) At various times the aspirations and perspectives of society have been articulated by mathematicians, priests, scientists, lawyers, and men of letters, and, in our time, particularly by psychiatrists. Whatever the preoccupation of the academies, the ideas of Freud and his successors have undeniably had a profound influence on our conceptions of human nature and destiny.
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