The fear of freedom / Erich Fromm.
By: Fromm, Erich
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BookPublisher: London : Routledge, 1991Description: 272 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 041506578X.Subject(s): Liberty | Democracy | Totalitarianism | Social psychologyDDC classification: 231.73 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 231.73 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00016862 | ||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Do we really want freedom - or are we intrisically afraid of it? In this account, Erich Fromm asks the fundamental question - is the fear of freedom at the root of 20th-century's predilection for one or other kind of totalitarianism? The rise of democracy, while setting us free also created a society where we feel isolated from our fellows, where relationships are impersonal and where insecurity replaces a sense of belonging. This sense of isolation drives a man to a devotion and submission to all-powerful organization from the state. The work, which is both psychoanalytical and historical, is a fundamental interpretation of our age and its problems.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Freedom - a psychological problem? -- The emergence of the individual and the ambiguity of freedom -- Freedom in the age of the reformation -- The two aspects of freedom for modern man -- Mechanisms of escape -- Psychology of Nazism -- Freedom and democracy.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Psychologist and philosopher Erich Fromm was born in Frankfurt, Germany on March 23, 1900. He received a Ph.D in sociology from the University of Heidelberg in 1922 and finished his psychoanalytical training at the Psychoanalytical Institute in Berlin in 1930. He started his own clinical practice and joined the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. In 1934, he moved to New York and became a professor at Columbia University. In 1950, he moved to Mexico City and became a professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, where he created a psychoanalytic section at the medical school. He retired from there in 1965 and moved to Muralto, Switzerland in 1974.Throughout his life, Fromm maintained a clinical practice and wrote books. His writings were notable for both their social and political commentary and their philosophical and psychological underpinnings. He became known for linking human personality types with socioeconomic and political structures. His most popular book, The Art of Loving, was first published in 1956 and became an international bestseller. He died on March 18, 1980.
(Bowker Author Biography)