Erich Fromm and Possession: to Have or Be: On Materialism, Identity, Freedom from the Compulsion Own

We live in the age of having. Everything modern man does, thinks, and feels is saturated with the logic of possession, and yet he has forgotten that there is another way to exist. Erich Fromm posed the most radical question of the twentieth century: What if having is not the solution but the problem?This book unfolds Fromm's critique of possession for the twenty-first century. It shows how the having orientation deforms our psyche, poisons our relationships, hollows out our knowledge, freezes our religion, and paralyzes our politics. From the subscription economy to influencer culture, from NFTs to the degrowth movement, Fromm's categories prove frighteningly current. A book that forces its reader to ask: Am I living in the mode of having, or in the mode of being?