Erich Fromm on Love and Union: Mysticism and Romanticism about Sexual Relations, in: André Grahle, Natasha McKeever and Joe Saunders (Eds.): Philosophy of Love in the Past, Present, and Future, New York NY (Routledge) 2022, pp. 73-86. [doi.org/10.4324/9781003014331-7]

  • According to Erich Fromm, sex has a role in love because it involves knowledge that surpasses linguistic communication. He explicitly connects this search with a form of mysticism. I acknowledge this turn to mysticism as one strand in thinking about the significance of expressive behaviour; however, the author seeks to show that Fromm’s insight can be captured in terms ultimately less mysterious than the appeal to the mystical. In place of the argument derived from Fromm, and which the author calls Mysticism about Sexual Relations, an alternative is proposed by the author that he calls Romanticism about Sexual Relations: it sees sexual behaviour as a set of expressive gestures symbolising the salient features of a situation on the model of a Romantic view of artworks.

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Author:Christopher Bennett
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2022
Release Date:2024/11/29
Format:to purchase via publisher
IdNo:Bennett_C_2022
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
Licence (German):to purchase / zu erwerben
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