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...Konrad Lorenz (On Aggression), co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Lorenz found instinctive aggression in animals and suggested that man is similarly programmed by evolution. Behaviorist B.F. Skinner, conversely, has long argued that man can be conditioned to forsake his violent ways. Now Erich Fromm, 73, social philosopher, psychoanalyst and bestselling author (The Sane Society, The Art of Loving), has written a new book, The Anatomy of Human Destruction (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $10.95), that challenges both schools of thought...
Lorenz is a fine observer of animals, Fromm concedes, who unfortunately "decided to venture out into a field in which he had little experience or competence, that of human behavior." Men and animals do fight instinctively to protect their vital interests -Fromm calls this "benign" aggression-but "only man seems to take pleasure in destroying life without any reason or purpose other than that of destroying." It is this "malignant" aggression that Lorenz has failed to identify and that now threatens man's very survival...
Manipulated Man. Fromm cites evidence to show that man's "malignant" lust for blood is not instinctive. He argues that "cooperation and sharing was a practical necessity for most hunting societies," and that historically, "warlikeness grows in proportion to civilization...
Where are Girl-Next-Door June Allyson, Novelist Nelson Algren, Psychologist Erich Fromm, Automation Millionaire John Diebold, Folk Singer Burl Ives and Mr. America himself, Bert Parks? Scrubbed out of the 1973 Celebrity Register, for one thing. Instead, publiciety's decennial Almanach de Gotha includes for the first time Rapist Eldridge Cleaver, Lesbian Jill Johnston, Red Black Angela Davis, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, and Senator Thomas Eagleton. For readers anxious to achieve such status, Microsociologist Cleveland Amory, in a foreword to the new edition, passes on some advice. The way to become a celebrity, said Aristotle Onassis, who ought...
...EVENING OF MUSIC FOR THE THEATER is sponsored by the Music Department and the Fromm Foundation, free, open to the public, and contemporary. (A 1958 Varese piece and two world premieres.) 8:30. Saturday and Sunday at the Loeb...