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Frankfurt School. Escape from Freedom is a book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, first published in the United States by Farrar & Rinehart [1] in 1941 with the title Escape from Freedom and a year later as The Fear of Freedom in UK by Routledge & Kegan Paul. It was translated into German and first published in 1952 under the title Die Angst vor ...
- Erich Fromm
- 1941
- The Problem of Freedom
- Ways of Escape
- How to Apply This Thought
It is surprising to see freedom identified as a problem, isn’t it? And why would we want to “escape from freedom”? We usually think that freedom must be something unequivocally good. All over the world people are fighting for their freedom. Being imprisoned, losing one’s freedom, is a heavy punishment that we reserve only for the worst offenders in...
Fromm identifies three ways in which many people try to escape from that unwanted and threatening freedom. One is authoritarianism, the attempt to give up one’s individuality and to become part of a collective, an authoritarian system that will tell us what to do. This can happen in two ways: we can either submit to the power of others, becoming pa...
So let us see how we cope with our freedom in our own lives. Do we cherish it? Do we make the best use of it? Or do we hide behind the power and the authority of others, behind violence and destructiveness, or behind mass culture, in the attempt to disappear and to get rid of that freedom that scares us? Of course, it is hard to look at our own pro...
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Sep 15, 1994 · Erich Fromm (1900-80) was a famous psychoanalyst and social psychologist who wrote several important books on history, psychology, ethics, and political philosophy. Although influenced by Freud, he disagreed with his famous predecessor on several important issues. Escape from Freedom was first published in 1941.
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Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom, published in 1941, has a good deal in common with Eric Hoffer's postwar The True Believer. Like Hoffer, Fromm was trying to understand the power and appeal of fascism.
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Escape from Freedom. Erich Fromm. Macmillan, 1994 - Fiction - 301 pages. If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as ...
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Mar 11, 2023 · Escape from freedom by Erich Fromm. Publication date 1965 Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Access ...
Mar 26, 2013 · Published in 1941, Escape from Freedom is considered the masterpiece of the German social psychologist, Erich Fromm. Fromm, who fled Germany during the Nazi uprising in the 1930s, contends in his book that the more 'modern man' becomes independent, self-reliant, and critical, the more he becomes isolated, alone, and afraid.
