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In the book, Fromm explores humanity's shifting relationship with freedom, how individual freedom can cause fear, anxiety and alienation, and how many people seek relief by relinquishing freedom. He describes how authoritarianism can be a mechanism of escape, with special emphasis on the psychosocial conditions that enabled the rise of Nazism.
- Erich Fromm
- 257
- 1941
- 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...
- Andreas Matthias
Sep 15, 1994 · 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.
- Erich Fromm
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- Holt McDougal
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Escape From Freedom is Erich Fromm’s attempt at a synthesis of the two. The book explores themes of freedom and alienation, with a particular focus on deconstruction of the psychosocial conditions that facilitated the rise of Nazism.
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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...
Jan 1, 1983 · The loss of traditional community ties led many to attempt to restore some sense of belonging and security by losing themselves in authoritarian political and religious movements. This “escape from freedom” afflicted all of modernity, culminating in the rise of fascism and Nazism that Fromm witnessed in his own time.
Mar 26, 2013 · Escape from Freedom. Erich Fromm. Open Road Media, Mar 26, 2013 - Psychology - 301 pages. Why do people choose authoritarianism over freedom? The classic study of the psychological appeal of...
