Non-Fiction Book Club: Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm

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The non-fiction book club gathers online every month for a discussion on our book of the month and non-fiction in general.

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Escape from Freedom is a book by psychoanalyst Erich_Fromm,">span>, first published in the United States by Farrar_%26_Rinehart">span> in 1941 with the title Escape from Freedom and a year later as The Fear of Freedom in UK by Routledge_%26_Kegan_Paul.">span>. It was translated into German and first published in 1952 under the title Die Angst vor der Freiheit (The Fear of Freedom). In the book, Fromm explores humanity's shifting relationship with freedom, how individual freedom can cause fear, anxiety and Social_alienation,">span>, and how many people seek relief by relinquishing freedom. He describes how authoritarianism can be a mechanism of escape, with special emphasis on the Psychosocial">span> conditions that enabled the rise of Nazism.