Escape from Freedom - Softcover

Fromm, Erich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 003018441X ISBN 13: 9780030184413

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1976

Synopsis

Dr. Fromm analyzes what he considers to be contemporary man's fear of positive freedom and willingness to submit to totalitarianism

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Review

An analysis par excellence of our cultural neurosis. -The Nation
"An important and challenging work. "-The New York Herald Tribune
"Fromm's thought merits the critical attention of all concerned with the human condition and its future. "-The Washington Post

An analysis par excellence of our cultural neurosis. -The Nation "The Nation"

An important and challenging work. "The New York Herald Tribune"

Fromm's thought merits the critical attention of all concerned with the human condition and its future. "The Washington Post""

"An analysis par excellence of our cultural neurosis. -The Nation" --The Nation

"An important and challenging work." --The New York Herald Tribune

"Fromm's thought merits the critical attention of all concerned with the human condition and its future." --The Washington Post

About the Author

Erich Fromm was born in Frankfurt, Germany on March 23, 1900 and was still living there and in Berlin Germany when Hitler took power but he managed to escape to New York which was, way back then, a bastion of freedom. Erich Fromm was a German-American Jewish social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Beginning with his first seminal work of 1941, Escape from Freedom (known in Britain as Fear of Freedom), Fromm's writings were notable as much for their social and political commentary as for their philosophical and psychological underpinnings. Indeed, Escape from Freedom is viewed as one of the founding works of political psychology. His second important work, Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics, first published in 1947, continued and enriched the ideas of Escape from Freedom. Taken together, these books outlined Fromm's theory of human character, which was a natural outgrowth of Fromm's theory of human nature. Fromm's most popular book was The Art of Loving, an international bestseller first published in 1956, which recapitulated and complemented the theoretical principles of human nature found in Escape from Freedom and Man for Himself — principles which were revisited in many of Fromm's other major works. After escaping from the Nazis, Erich Fromm became an American citizen in 1940. After the war was over, Fromm moved to Mexico City where he became a professor of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He stayed in Mexico until 1974 when he returned to Switzerland. He died on March 18, 1980 in Locarno, Switzerland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 003018441X
• ISBN 13: 9780030184413
• Binding: Paperback