Politics
Escape from Freedom
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks, 1994, 320pp, 1st ed.
Escape from Freedom examined the plight of man in the post existentialist world; it saw man as cut off from the homely security of the medieval paradise, driven by loneliness and fear to seek solutions to his predicament in the shelter of political tyrannies. Fromm's was a subtle exploration of the negative aspect of freedom, a situation in which he saw modern man as alleviating his unbearable powerlessness and isolation only by morbid activity.
Table of contents
- Freedom - A Psychological Problem?
- The Emergence of the Individual and the Ambiguity of Freedom
- Freedom in the Age of Reformation
- Two Aspects of Freedom for Modern Man
- Mechanisms of Escape
- Psychology of Nazism
- Freedom and Democracy
- Appendix: Character and the Social Process