BOOKS - The Fear of Freedom
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The Fear of Freedom
Author: Erich Fromm
Year: January 1, 1941
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 596 KB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 1941
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 596 KB
Language: English
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 (known as The Fear of Freedom outside North America), a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published in 1941. Few books have thrown such light upon the forces that shape modern society or penetrated so deeply into the causes of authoritarian systems. If the rise of democracy set some people free, at the same time it gave birth to a society in which the individual feels alienated and dehumanized. Using the insights of psychoanalysis as probing agents, Fromm's work analyzes the illness of contemporary civilization as witnessed by its willingness to submit to totalitarian rule.
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