preface

1 The Life of Erich Fromm
1.
Childhood - A boy who dreamed of becoming a Talmud scholar
2.
The shock of World War I
3.
Encounter with Humanistic Judaism
4.
The Encounter between Psychoanalysis and Marxism
5.
Political Participation and Death

2 Fromm's Diagnosis of Modern Society and Modern People - Sick Society and Sick People
1.
Mental health of modern people and modern society
Social Character and Social Structure | The Pathological Nature of Modern Capitalism
2.
19th-century capitalism and its social character
The Dominance of Exploitation and Competition | The Dominance of Savings and Authoritarianism | The Goals of 19th-Century Liberation Movements and the Problems of the 20th Century
3.
20th-century capitalism and its social character
Social change | Personality change
4.
The desperate reality of modern society

3 What Kind of Being Are Humans? - Fromm's Normative Humanism
1.
normative humanism
2.
The fundamental human condition
The Essential Differences Between Animals and Humans | The Fundamental Context and Fundamental Aspirations of Humans
3.
Fundamental aspirations that stem from the fundamental human condition
The yearning for union | The drive for transcendence and creation | The framework of orientation and the desire for an object of devotion | The significance of the passions unique to humans
4.
Are humans destructive animals?
A Critique of the View That Human Destructiveness and Violence Are Instinctive | The Human Origins of Malicious Aggression and Destructiveness | Is the Construction of Utopia Possible?

4 How Should We Live? - Fromm's Ethics
1.
Character and Ethics
2.
Productive and unproductive personalities
3.
Personality and Society
4.
Psychoanalysis and Ethics
5.
Authoritarian ethics and humanistic ethics
Authoritarian Ethics and Humanistic Ethics | Authoritarian Conscience and Humanistic Conscience
6.
Universal ethics and social ethics

5 You Will Be Like God - Fromm's Philosophy of Religion
1.
Freud and Jung's understanding of religion
2.
The development of religion
3.
Authoritarian and humanistic religions
4.
Authoritarian and humanistic elements in Judaism and Christianity
5.
Differences in the Understanding of Sin and Ritual in Authoritarian and Humanistic Religions
6.
True faith as faith in oneself
7.
Ethics and Religion
8.
Science and Religion
9.
The Death of True Religion in Modern Times and the Religion of the Future

6 Towards a humanistic and communitarian socialism
1.
Changes in the economic dimension
2.
political change
3.
cultural change

7. A Synthesis of Psychoanalysis, Marxism, and Existential Philosophy - Fromm's Significance in Modern Thought
1.
Freud and Marx
2.
Fromm's Understanding of Freud
Freud's Limitations 1 - The Problems with the Instinctualistic Understanding of Humans | Freud's Limitations 2 - The Problems with the Relativistic Position | Freud's Limitations 3 - The Problems with the Position of Seeing Humans as Isolated Entities and the Static Understanding of Humans and Society
3.
Fromm's acceptance of Marx
4.
Fromm's critique of Marx
5.
Acceptance of existentialist insights