As a Jew who was forced to flee Nazi Germany in the wake of the murder of many in his family and community, Eric Fromm was witness to the worst of humanity. As a member of the Frankfurt School, whose philosophers, psychologists, psychoanalysts, sociologists and critical theorists sought to make sense of the world after the horrors of the Second World War, Fromm dedicated much of his life to understanding Love. In his book on The Art of Loving, he explores the common conception of Love as something that happens to us and argues that Love is better thought of as something that we do. While we often talk of Love as something that we can be ‘struck’ by or ‘fall’ into, Fromm suggests that we would be better served by considering Love as a verb. There is perhaps a hint of this kind of active Love in the responses of brides and grooms in the marriage ceremony when they say ‘I will’ when prompted by the priest or celebrant asking if they will Love one another. This points towards wisdom that we ought to heed rather than accepting our usual passive interpretation of ‘being’ or ‘falling’ in Love. This active form of Love has profound implications for how we live our lives. Yet, other than in the ritualized marriage ceremony, we do not often conceptualize Love as something to be done. Fromm, along with any number of other notable philosophers, from Nietzsche to bell hooks, tells us that the suffering that is at the heart of the human condition is the result of our fundamental separateness from humanity and the rest of the world. It is this separateness and our yearning for connection that can be found at the root of our anxieties, anxieties that are exacerbated by the market- led competitive economic relations that have inveigled their way into every facet of our lives. As we create a society where we are seemingly more separate than ever, despite the possibilities for technological connection that grow by the day, we have seen anxiety emerge as a preoccupation of the modern individual and of society as a whole. If there is a way to overcome this anxiety- inducing separation, then we must surely explore it. This is the task to which this book is dedicated.