The Art of Being

Erich Fromm is the greatest thinker of the 20th century, one of the great cohort of philosophers from psychology and a spiritual leader of the Frankfurt School of Sociology. The works of Erich Fromm are always relevant, as the main theme of his research was the revelation of human essence as the realization of a productive, life-generating beginning. Erich Fromm's work The Art of Being is a kind of supplement to his opus magnum – the famous The Art of Loving. Who are we? Why? The meaning of life – or, more precisely, the meaning of being – is the main question of all world philosophy. To be or not to be? – the question of questions, posed once by Hamlet. To be, – says Erich Fromm. But if to be, then how? And what kind? Fromm considered love to be an art accessible to everyone. But if love is an art, then is art also being?