FROMM, Erich

  • Era: 1900 - 1980
  • Location: Germany, United States
  • Categories: PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL SCIENCE

From an educational background and both rabbinic and psychoanalytic training in Germany, he emigrated as Nazism took hold. In university teaching, clinical practice and a succession of well-received books, he pursued the priority of maximising human freedom. That fulfilment entailed escape from false versions of being free – economic, emotional and political. Instead he sought a rounded version which he couched in terms of humanist ethics.

 

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Interview with Erich Fromm (30 mins)