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Title: Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm ISBN: 0-8050-3149-9 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Definite Piece of the Puzzle - A Book To Be Read
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An amazing book that pieces modern society starting from the medieval to the renaissance and reformation, that is, from a well defined structured and fixed group identity, fixed meaning to life, determined purpose to life and the here after, to that of the existential, capitalistic and monopolist society that has produced radical individualism with the type of freedom producing severe loneliness, separation and the need to alleviate such emptiness, which has been fulfilled by illusionary means.
Fromm goes both into the psyche of man, the nature of societal structure, the development of western civilization and need for security and certainty to that of either authoritarian rule, internal conscious rule or the invisible rule of democratic conformity to public opinion, or automation.
Basic Masochistic/Sadistic desires of man from the extreme, to what is considered "normal" has been seen in the forfeit of the individual self into totalitarian control, capitalistic profit and religious and social concepts that attempt to fill the void of separateness without keeping the self.
Fromm ends his book in what the positive traits of what Faust would be: that of spontaneous living, not compulsive living, but in positive affirmation and movement, in the process of life, not the results, the experience of the activity of the present moment. I couldn't agree more.
Rating: 5
Summary: We are not free by choice, not by force.
Comment: There is a lack of freedom in our world, even in the best of democracy.
Unfortunately, the only reason we are not free is because we choose not to be. In fact we are trying very hard to escape from freedom just like the title says and that is a very pessimistic thought. If there was a plot to keep us from reaching our individual freedom like some people think, that would be optimistic - In that case we could have a revolution. But the way things are we need billions of inner revolutions, and that's an implausible scenario.
All essential problems of human situation are thoroughly and clearly described in one place. If you are unhappy with your life, your surroundings, or feel weltschmerz of some kind, you'll find all the answers right here. It is incredible that book which is read so lightly almost like some novel, is so filled with wisdom and deepest understanding of human mind and it's problems.
In my opinion Erich Fromm and his entire opus are by far the most important event in Psychology and Sociology in this century.
Rating: 5
Summary: May change the way you look at the world!
Comment: This book offers insight into many everyday issues: thinking, feeling, wanting, character, individualism, politics, most of all freedom - the list goes on. You will learn what it means to have a false self including: pseudo-thinking, pseudo-feeling, pseudo-willing, etc. For example, when you have a "thought" how do you know it is yours? When you want something, how do you know it is you who "wants" it?
This book also explains the rise of Nazism from a psychological and historical perspective, making it actually seem understandable.
Fromm starts the book by talking about our experience as children from the womb to breaking away and moving into the world. The problem he describes is that people on the whole do not want to be free and want to cling to ideas that make them feel as if they were back in the womb.
This book talks much about socialization and in my opinion parallels "The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge" by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann, which I believe to be one the best books ever written.
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Title: The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm ISBN: 0060958286 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Sane Society by Erich Fromm ISBN: 0805014020 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm ISBN: 080501604X Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Man for Himself : An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics by Erich Fromm ISBN: 0805014039 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: To Have or to Be? by Erich Fromm ISBN: 0826409121 Publisher: Continuum Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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