Fascism Vulnerability And The Escape From Freedom

Author : Anonim
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781685710804

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Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom by Anonim Pdf

A worldwide struggle between democracy and authoritarianism set against a backdrop of global surveillance capitalism is unmistakable. Examples range from Myanmar, China, and the Philippines to Hungary, Turkey, Russia, and the United States. Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom offers a multidisciplinary analysis drawing on psychology and literature to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that drive people to abandon democracy in favor of vertically organized authoritarianism and even fascism. In a comparative study of texts selected for their insights and occasional blind spots regarding fascist experiments of the past 100 years, Delogu examines fascism’s exploitation of fear (of change, loss, and death), disruption, and extreme inequality. The book offers an accessible and persuasive argument linking fascist authoritarianism, also called “right-wing populism,” to certain underlying conditions, such as a rise in us-versus-them thinking; distrust or simple apathy regarding democratic institutions, norms, and results; the vulnerabilities that result from extreme inequality (economic, social, racial); and addictions and codependency. Stressful events, such as a pandemic, an environmental disaster, or deep recession aggravate these harmful factors and make the fascist temptation, including the use of violence, almost irresistible. Delogu’s distinctive examination of texts that plumb the unconscious reveal linkages between actions and unavowable motives that purely historical and theoretical studies of fascism leave out. Erich Fromm’s neglected 1941 classic Escape from Freedom serves as a key reference in Delogu’s study, as does Robert Paxton’s authoritative history, The Anatomy of Fascism (2004). After underscoring the argument and urgent context around these two studies (Hitler’s Germany and George W. Bush’s post-9/11 America), Delogu examines novels, a diary, memoirs, and manifestos to show how vulnerability forces individuals to choose between exclusionary fascist authoritarianism and inclusive, collaborative democracy.

Author : Erich Fromm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:638601488

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The Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm Pdf

Author : Erich Fromm
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781480402010

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Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm Pdf

Why do people choose authoritarianism over freedom? The classic study of the psychological appeal of fascism by a New York Times–bestselling author. The pursuit of freedom has indelibly marked Western culture since Renaissance humanism and Protestantism began the fight for individualism and self-determination. This freedom, however, can make people feel unmoored, and is often accompanied by feelings of isolation, fear, and the loss of self, all leading to a desire for authoritarianism, conformity, or destructiveness. It is not only the question of freedom that makes Fromm’s debut book a timeless classic. In this examination of the roots of Nazism and fascism in Europe, Fromm also explains how economic and social constraints can also lead to authoritarianism. By the author of The Sane Society and The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, this is a fascinating examination of the anxiety that underlies our darkest impulses, an enlightening volume perfect for readers of Eric Hoffer or Hannah Arendt. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Author : Israel W. Charny
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780803215504

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Fascism and Democracy in the Human Mind by Israel W. Charny Pdf

What might you have done if you had been caught up in the Holocaust? In My Lai? In Rwanda? Confronted with acts of violence and evil on scales grand and small, we ask ourselves, baffled, how such horrors can happen?how human beings seemingly like ourselves can commit such atrocities. The answer, I. W. Charny suggests in this important new work, may be found in each one of us, in the different and distinct ways in which we organize our minds. An internationally recognized scholar of the psychology of violence, Charny defines two paradigms of mental organization, the democratic and the fascist, and shows how these systems can determine behavior in intimate relationships, social situations, and events of global significance. With its novel conception of mental health and illness, this book develops new directions for diagnosis and treatment of emotional disorders that are played out in everyday acts of violence against ourselves and others. Fascism and Democracy in the Human Mind also offers much-needed insight into the sources and workings of terrorism and genocide. A sane, radical statement about the guiding principles underlying acts of violence and evil, this book sounds a passionate call for the democratic way of thinking, which recognizes complexity, embraces responsibility, and affirms life.

Author : Erich Fromm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : UCR:31210001708625

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The Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm Pdf

Author : Wilfred M. McClay
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0807844195

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The Masterless by Wilfred M. McClay Pdf

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Frank T. De Angelis,Frank DeAngelis
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780595180912

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Reflections of a Bankruptee on Debt, Amnesty, Revolution, and History by Frank T. De Angelis,Frank DeAngelis Pdf

A comprehensive, enlightening book on debt, bankruptcy, law, and the philosophical and historical background. Professor De Angelis, primarily a philosopher and humanitarian, gives the most helpful information, chock-full of statistics, along with a brilliant and insightful theoretical analysis.

Author : Coblentz, Jessica,Horan, OFM, Daniel P.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608339204

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The Human in a Dehumanizing World by Coblentz, Jessica,Horan, OFM, Daniel P. Pdf

"CTS annual volume focusing on dehumanization and theological anthropology, in such areas as sexual harassment, racial justice, and decolonization"--

Author : Henry Stuart Hughes
Publisher : New York : McGraw-Hill
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015000051840

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The Sea Change by Henry Stuart Hughes Pdf

Author : M. Brewster Smith
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780814798232

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For a Significant Social Psychology by M. Brewster Smith Pdf

M. Brewster Smith has been a pivotal figure in social psychology and personality studies for more than half a century. "For a Significant Social Psychology" collects Smith's most important writings, introduced by the author and presented thematically.

Author : Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351301787

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The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Pdf

With a new introduction by the author, The Vital Center is an eloquent and incisive defense of liberal democracy against its rivals to the left and to the right, communism and fascism. It shows how the failures of free society had led to the mass escape from freedom and sharpened the appeal of totalitarian solutions. It calls for a radical reconstruction of the democratic faith based on a realistic understanding of human limitation and frailty.

Author : Calvin S. Hall,Gardner Lindzey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UCSC:32106018498235

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Theories of Personality by Calvin S. Hall,Gardner Lindzey Pdf

This is the best book on theories ever published. The fourth edition is theory-oriented and has been reorganized into four parts examing theories of psychodynamics, personality structure, growth and perceived reality, and learning. It also includes new chapters on Eysenck, Bandura, Kelly, and social learning theories.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786257120869

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Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell Pdf

Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the defining events of his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write in 1946, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism, as I understand it." The first edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952, when it appeared with an influential preface by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948. A French translation by Yvonne Davet-with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes-in 1938-39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death. Book Summary: Orwell served as a private, a corporal (cabo) and-when the informal command structure of the militia gave way to a conventional hierarchy in May 1937-as a lieutenant, on a provisional basis, in Catalonia and Aragon from December 1936 until June 1937. In June 1937, the leftist political party with whose militia he served (the POUM, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist communist party) was declared an illegal organisation, and Orwell was consequently forced to flee. Having arrived in Barcelona on 26 December 1936, Orwell told John McNair, the Independent Labour Party's (ILP) representative there, that he had "come to Spain to join the militia to fight against Fascism." He also told McNair that "he would like to write about the situation and endeavour to stir working class opinion in Britain and France." McNair took him to the POUM barracks, where Orwell immediately enlisted. "Orwell did not know that two months before he arrived in Spain, the [Soviet law enforcement agency] NKVD's resident in Spain, Aleksandr Orlov, had assured NKVD Headquarters, 'the Trotskyist organisation POUM can easily be liquidated'-by those, the Communists, whom Orwell took to be allies in the fight against Franco."

Author : Conrad Black
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 1329 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781610392136

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Conrad Black Pdf

Franklin Delano Roosevelt stands astride American history like a colossus, having pulled the nation out of the Great Depression and led it to victory in the Second World War. Elected to four terms as president, he transformed an inward-looking country into the greatest superpower the world had ever known. Only Abraham Lincoln did more to save America from destruction. But FDR is such a large figure that historians tend to take him as part of the landscape, focusing on smaller aspects of his achievements or carping about where he ought to have done things differently. Few have tried to assess the totality of FDR's life and career. Conrad Black rises to the challenge. In this magisterial biography, Black makes the case that FDR was the most important person of the twentieth century, transforming his nation and the world through his unparalleled skill as a domestic politician, war leader, strategist, and global visionary -- all of which he accomplished despite a physical infirmity that could easily have ended his public life at age thirty-nine. Black also takes on the great critics of FDR, especially those who accuse him of betraying the West at Yalta. Black opens a new chapter in our understanding of this great man, whose example is even more inspiring as a new generation embarks on its own rendezvous with destiny.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134651184

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The Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth Century Europe by David Roberts Pdf

By developing a long-term supranational perspective, this ambitious, multi-faceted work provides a new understanding of ‘totalitarianism’, the troubling common element linking Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German Nazism. The book’s original analysis of antecedent ideas on the subject sheds light on the common origins and practices of the regimes. Through this fresh appreciation of their initial frame of mind, Roberts demonstrates how the three political experiments yielded unprecedented collective mobilization but also a characteristic combination of radicalization, myth-making, and failure. Providing deep historical analysis, the book proves that 'totalitarianism' best characterizes the common features in the originating aspirations, the mode of action and even the outcomes of Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German Nazism. By enhancing our knowledge of what ‘totalitarianism’ was and where it came from, Roberts affords important lessons about the ongoing challenges, possibilities, and dangers of the modern political experiment.