by Erich Fromm · Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner · tapa dura · ISBN 9780710032058
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«The Fear of Freedom» is Erich Fromm's social psychology essay, published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner in hardback (286 pages, in English).
The essay analyses how the freedom won by democracy also brought loneliness, alienation and anxiety. Fromm combines psychoanalysis and history to explain why the modern individual, unable to assume the responsibility of deciding, can take refuge in authoritarian leaders; the totalitarianism of the twentieth century is born from the fear of freedom.
It is part of the International Library of Society collection; it was originally published in 1941 as «Escape from Freedom», and this British edition appeared in 1942.
It is a reading for students of psychology, sociology and political science and for those seeking to understand the psychological bases of authoritarianism.
Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
