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Mentioned in 12 episodes

Escape from Freedom

Book • 1941

In 'Escape from Freedom', Erich Fromm examines the human relationship with freedom, distinguishing between 'freedom from' (negative freedom) and 'freedom to' (positive freedom).

The book discusses how the rise of democracy and the destruction of feudal societies led to a new kind of freedom that many individuals found overwhelming.

Fromm argues that this sense of freedom can lead to feelings of alienation, anxiety, and a desire to escape these feelings through mechanisms such as authoritarianism, destructiveness, and automatic conformity.

He also analyzes the psychosocial conditions that facilitated the rise of Nazism and other totalitarian regimes.

The book is divided into sections that explore the historical transition from medieval to modern society, the psychological factors at play in contemporary society, and the dissection of authoritarian societies with a vision of potential alternatives.

Mentioned by

Richard Gilman Opalski

Mentioned in 12 episodes

Mentioned by

Stephen West

as a landmark book exploring the concept of freedom and its potential pitfalls.

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Mentioned by Jordan B. Peterson in relation to terror management theory and the hero myth.

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Mentioned by

Brett McKay

in relation to the concept of freedom being terrifying.

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Mentioned by

Sheldon Solomon

in a discussion about existential isolation and communication.

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Mentioned by

Orion Taraban

as an excellent book discussing how modern man flees from freedom into intellectual and emotional slavery.

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Mentioned by

Richard Gilman Opalski

in the context of a discussion about the capitalist predation of human loneliness.

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Mentioned by

Todd Perry

as a book that explores the human desire to be led and told what to do.

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Mentioned by

Curt Jaimungal

in the context of discussing the "having mode" versus the "being mode" of existence.

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Mentioned by

Joan Westenberg

as a brilliant psychoanalyst who broke freedom into two types.

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Citeret i forbindelse med det tribalistiske lukkede samfund som et psykologisk trygt fællesskab.

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Mentioned by

Tamler Sommers

when discussing authoritarianism-related traits and fatalistic beliefs.

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Mentioned by

Joseph Lee

while discussing the concept of freedom and its implications.

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Mentioned by Dimitri Shalin as a largely unacknowledged influence on Goffman's 'Presentation of Self in Everyday Life'.

Dmitri N. Shalin, "Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination" (Routledge, 2024)

Mentioned by

Michael Ashcroft

when discussing freedom from and freedom to.

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Mentioned by

Daniel Shaw

as a best-selling international book about authoritarianism in Germany and Hitler.

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Mentioned by Pippa Malmgren when discussing the possibility of a more authoritarian society.

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Recommended by David Heinemeier Hansson as a book that explains a lot of what's going on with the political situation both in the US and much of the Western world right now.

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Mentioned by Dimitri N. Shalin as being influence by Eric Fromm.

Dmitri N. Shalin, "Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination" (Routledge, 2024)

Cited by Dimitri Shalin as a book by Eric Fromm that influenced Goffman's work.

Dmitri N. Shalin, "Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination" (Routledge, 2024)

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