Name: Escape from Freedom
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Author: Erich Fromm

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Escape from Freedom explores how people feel dehumanized and alienated in modern society.  They will probably turn to authoritarianism if they do not feel that they can live with freedom's inherent dangers and responsibilities.  This book, written by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, is as compelling now as when it was published in 1941.  Fromm uses insights from psychoanalysis as probing agents, in order to analyze the forces that shape modern society. 

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