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Title: Escape from Freedom
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| Escape from Freedom by Holt Paperbacks Essential Delve Into What Freedom Is |
Written almost seventy years ago, this book is still surprisingly relevant today. Fromm explores freedom from two sides, man's strive for it and man's strive in spite of it.
An essential book for anyone who truly values freedom, and even more essential for those who try to rebel against society and carve their own niche. Are they really? Or are they falling into freedom's trappings.
Especially powerful is the section on Nazism, written at the dawn of World War II. Great stuff here. |
| Escape from Freedom by Holt Paperbacks One of the Greatest Socialist Thinkers of the 20th Century... |
Psychologist Erich Fromm gives one a thought provoking view of the human condition-perhaps more true noe than when the book was written. He takes a multi-disciplanary approach using the History of Western Civilization, Psychology, Sociology, Marxist, Freudian, and Existential Thought.
If you are a socialist, Fromm will present a well-needed critique of modern psychosocial life, that will enhance your understanding. If you are an anti-socialist, Fromm will present to you an interesting and profound challenge. I would buy and read this book in either case.
I think that the book is brilliant in that there is danger that modern man in the capitalistic society is prone to surrender his freedom: not so much to Fascism (as Fromm warns against), but rather to the unthinking world of pop culture. |
| Escape from Freedom by Holt Paperbacks The Hobo Philosopher |
Erich Fromm was a popular author among college students in the 60's. This particular book expressed the notion that human beings did not really want freedom and were on a constant psychological journey to undermine their own personal freedom in many convoluted ways. The author gives examples of how we undermine our freedom and how we try to escape from the burden of freedom and independence.
I read this so many years ago that I can remember nothing specific. What I do remember is that I carried this book around with me for at least a year. As I read it and pondered the author's implications. At the time I thought he was the "best". I should re-read something of his today and see what I think now. This would be a good psychological experiment. But "there are so many book and so little time".
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| Escape from Freedom by Holt Paperbacks time to remember history |
| I bought this book trying to undestand the last events in Russia. There is no mirror situation between Germany in 30-s of the last century and the current situation in Russia. However, there is the same conclusion. If you are not ready to take a responsibility for your own freedom, you will lost it. |
| Escape from Freedom by Holt Paperbacks great book |
| Erich Fromm is perhaps the most brilliant psychoanalyst period. I have read two other books by him, and am again amazed by his ability to create a unifying and extemely broad theory on how escape from objective external control (ie religious organizations) leaves us feeling alone and powerless; our lives become seemingly meaningless. Erich Fromm should be read by anyone who is deeply interested in the social sciences (I'm a psychology major) or even anyone interested in knowing themselves better as he is able to reveal many of our faults to us. Fromm may have been a humanist, but he writes in a style that is as demanding of our change as it is understanding of our faults. |
| Escape from Freedom by Holt Paperbacks Product Description |
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 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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