大连海事大学：《高级英语 Advanced English》课程教学资源（PPT课件讲稿，英文版）Unit 8 The Worker as Creator or Machine

Unit 8 o The Worker as creator or machine By erich fromm

Unit 8 ⚫ The Worker as Creator or Machine By Erich Fromm

Teaching Points Background knowedge oIl. Introduction to the passage ●Ⅲ. Text Analysis ●ⅣV. Rhetorical devices o V Questions

Teaching Points ⚫ I. Background knowledge ⚫ II. Introduction to the passage ⚫ III. Text Analysis ⚫ IV. Rhetorical devices ⚫ V. Questions

Background Knowledge ● About the author o Erich Fromm(1900-1980 ● in frankfurt, Germany o His father was a business man and his mother was frequently depressed o His childhood wasn 't very happy

I. Background Knowledge ⚫ About the Author ⚫ Erich Fromm (1900 – 1980) ⚫ in Frankfurt, Germany ⚫ His father was a business man and his mother was frequently depressed. ⚫ His childhood wasn't very happy

I. Background Knowledge

1. Background Knowledge o In his autobiography, Beyond the chains of Illusion. fromm talks about two events in his early adolescence that started him along his path

1. Background Knowledge ⚫ In his autobiography, Beyond the Chains of Illusion, Fromm talks about two events in his early adolescence that started him along his path

1. Background Knowledge o Maybe she was 25 years of age, she was beautiful, attractive, and in addition a painter, the first painter /ever knew. I remember having heard that she had been engaged but after some time had broken the engagement: I remember that she was almost invariably in the company ofher widowed father

1. Background Knowledge ⚫ Maybe she was 25 years of age; she was beautiful, attractive, and in addition a painter, the first painter I ever knew. I remember having heard that she had been engaged but after some time had broken the engagement; I remember that she was almost invariably in the company of her widowed father

1. Background Knowledge As Iremember him. he was an old uninteresting, and rather unattractive man, or so I thought(maybe my judgmentwas somewhat biased by jealousy Then one day heard the shocking news: her father had died, and immediately afterwards, she had killed herself and left a will which stipulated that she wanted to be buried with her father(p. 4)

I. Background Knowledge ⚫ As I remember him, he was an old, uninteresting, and rather unattractive man, or so I thought (maybe my judgment was somewhat biased by jealousy). Then one day I heard the shocking news: her father had died, and immediately afterwards, she had killed herself and left a will which stipulated that she wanted to be buried with her father. (p. 4)

1. Background Knowledge o As you can imagine this news hit the 12 year old Erich hard, and he found himself asking what many of us might ask: why Later, he began finding some answers partial ones, admittedly --in Freud

I. Background Knowledge ⚫ As you can imagine, this news hit the 12 year old Erich hard, and he found himself asking what many of us might ask: why? Later, he began finding some answers -- partial ones, admittedly -- in Freud

Background Knowledge o The second event was even larger o World War I. at the tender age of 14. he saw the extremes that nationalism could go to All around him, he heard the message: We (Germans)are great; They(the English and their allies)are cheap mercenaries. The hatred, the war hysteria, " frightened him as well it should

I. Background Knowledge ⚫ The second event was even larger: ⚫ World War I. At the tender age of 14, he saw the extremes that nationalism could go to. All around him, he heard the message: We (Germans) are great; They (the English and their allies) are cheap mercenaries. The hatred, the "war hysteria," frightened him, as well it should

Background Knowledge o So again he wanted to understand something irrational - the irrationality of mass behavior --and he found some answers, this time in the writings of Karl Marx

I. Background Knowledge ⚫ So again he wanted to understand something irrational -- the irrationality of mass behavior -- and he found some answers, this time in the writings of Karl Marx