Escape from Freedom
First published 1941
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**Escape from Freedom** is a book by the Frankfurt-born psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, first published in the United States by Farrar & Rinehart in 1941 with the title **Escape from Freedom** and a year later as The **Fear of Freedom** in UK by Routledge & Kegan Paul.
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, with particular regard to the personal consequences of its absence.
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His special emphasis is the psychosocial conditions that facilitated the rise of Nazism.
(Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Freedom))
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Book information
- Author
- Erich Fromm
- First published
- 1941
- Edition
- The fear of freedom
- Publisher
- Routledge & Kegan Paul
- Language
- ENG
- ISBN-13
- 9780710032058