《The Art of Loving 爱的艺术(英文版)》[Erich Fromm][azw3][无损5分]

　《爱的艺术》是美国社会心理学家和哲学家、法兰克福学派重要成员艾里希·弗洛姆的著名作品，自1956年出版至今已被翻译成三十二种文字，在全世界畅销不衰。

　　在本书中，弗洛姆认为，爱情不是一种只需投入身心的感情，而是需要努力发展自己的全部个性，以此形成一种创造倾向，否则，一切爱的尝试都是会失败的。如果没有爱他人的能力，不能谦恭、勇敢、真诚、自制地爱他人，就不可能得到满意的爱。

　　弗洛姆进而提出，爱是一门艺术，想要掌握这门艺术的人，需要有这方面的知识并付出努力去学习。既要学习爱的理论，也要在爱的实践中学习。

THE READING OF THIS book would be a disappointing experience for anyone who expects easy instruction in the art of loving. This book, on the contrary, wants to show that love is not a sentiment which can be easily indulged in by anyone, regardless of the level of maturity reached by him. It wants to convince the reader that all his attempts for love are bound to fail, unless he tries most actively to develop his total personality, so as to achieve a productive orientation; that satisfaction in individual love cannot be attained without the capacity to love one’s neighbor, without true humility, courage, faith and discipline. In a culture in which these qualities are rare, the attainment of the capacity to love must remain a rare achievement. Or—anyone can ask himself how many truly loving persons he has known.

Yet, the difficulty of the task must not be a reason to abstain from trying to know the difficulties as well as the conditions for its achievement. To avoid unnecessary complications I have tried to deal with the problem in a language which is non-technical as far as this is possible. For the same reason I have also kept to a minimum references to the literature on love.

For another problem I did not find a completely satisfactory solution; that, namely, of avoiding repetition of ideas expressed in previous books of mine. The reader especially familiar with Escape from Freedom, Man for Himself, and The Sane Society, will find in this book many ideas expressed in these previous works. However, The Art of Loving is by no means mainly a recapitulation. It presents many ideas beyond the previously expressed ones, and quite naturally even older ones sometimes gain new perspectives by the fact that they are all centered around one topic, that of the art of loving.