by Erich Fromm · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429714654
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«La por a la llibertat» is the essay by Erich Fromm, published by Edicions 62 in paperback, with 272 pages and text in Catalan.
Fromm argues that, faced with the dangers and responsibilities of freedom, many people prefer to take refuge in submission and authoritarianism. Using the tools of psychoanalysis and sociology, he analyzes the alienation of the individual in modern society and the social mechanisms that can lead to the acceptance of totalitarian governments.
Originally published in 1941, this edition belongs to the El Cangur collection and dates from 1979.
For readers interested in social psychology, political philosophy and the causes 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.
