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    <body><![CDATA[Las reflexiones de Fromm sobre el amor, la teoría del amor, son interesantes aunque obvias muchas de ellas. No obstante, la parte de la desintegración del amor en la sociedad capitalista occidental me ha hecho reflexionar, contiene ideas muy interesantes. Lo bueno de Fromm es que, a pesar de ser f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33427">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Everyone should read this book.  It's for people who are in or trying to be in a relationship, but it's really also for any person who wants to be a better world citizen, in terms of how we relate to everyone (significant other, family, friends, strangers, etc.).  The premise is really that today's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44719367">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This isn't an easy read by any stretch of the imagination. My copy has underlines, question marks &amp; comments I've written on nearly every page I've read thus far. (which is, pg. 49 - it's not a long book, it's just really cerebral.) The point of this book is to better understand what it means to tru...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23919280">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the idea of the book. Love in any forms of relationship (parent, friend, lover, etc)  simply needs an art to really comprehend it. <br/><br/>Fromm explained why people have tendency being trapped in narcissism or loneliness situation. We tend to focus how to make ourselves lovable, and nev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2084005">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I underestimated the power of this rather unsophisticated looking book.  I have no idea who Fromm is but I imagine since he’s a German Jew and lived through both world wars that he’s a pretty insightful scholar. He writes so eloquently about what love is and what is it not that I felt enlightene...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64957050">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I went through this book again partly because it's has so much to say, and partly because I wanted to re-read Erich Fromm's instructions on how to meditate. I like the way he puts it, on pages 101 - 102: <br/><br/>“If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own feet, he or s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58706947">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Вот такие, важные и великие книги, почему-то всегда прочитываются чуть позже чем нужно. В то же время, вызывая тем самым большую игру дум соотношения прожитого и пер...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78845224">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Eric Fromm follows marxist and freudean traditions. He develops the concept of loving as an art and sets about developing a theory and some guidelines for practice. Fromm belongs to the Frankfurt school of critical theory which means that his neo-Marxist aproach is one that aims to develop a p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66599386">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book when I was 20 or so and it was from this book that I first had a realization that love is not about romance and flowers or even fate or destiny in a sort of &quot;we were meant to be together&quot; way.  Despite that, I became entangled in a number of relationships at multiple...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45600870">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ok, i finally made it through &quot;Die Kunst des Liebens&quot;!  So he is not kidding when he says this is not a book of trivial relationship advice, it is a book about love in the deepest sense.  It was on the shelf at the local library in the Frau-Mann section (man woman) and where it really belo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71766847">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If my mate George hadn’t recommended this book there is no chance at all that I would have read it.  I’ve a strange relationship with LOVE – in that I think it is grossly overrated by our society.  You could get away with thinking that if you were not ‘in love’ in our society then there is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29592862">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While I find Fromm to be somewhat arrogant and presumptuous in the assertion of his strong convictions on human nature, I enjoyed this book as I enjoy most of his writings. He makes a good case for the rarity of true, mature love in our society, and discusses the conditions he feels are necessary fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29012023">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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