The Anatomy Of Human Destructiveness

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Drawing on the findings of anthropology, palaeontogy, psychology and history; and including character analyses of Stalin, Hitler and Himmler, this title shows how the failure to use our capacity for love and reason results in the development of the reverse: we wish to control life absolutely, or to destroy it.

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What makes men kill? How can we explain man's lust for cruelty and destruction? This pioneering work provides the answers. 19961125

Author description

Born in Frankfurt in 1900, Erich Fromm was educated at Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Munich, and the Berlin Institute of Psychoanalysis. He held various university appointments before becoming Professor of Psychiatry at New York in 1962. He retired to Muralto in Switzerland, where he died in 1980. Dr Fromm's books have been translated into many languages and among the best known are Escape from Freedom, Man for Himself, The Forgotten Language, The Sane Society, The Art of Loving, You Shall be as Gods, The Crisis of Psychoanalysis and To Have or To Be?