Escape from Freedom
Videos
Escape from Freedom is a book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, first published under that title in the United States by Farrar & Rinehart in 1941 and a year later as The Fear of Freedom in the UK by Rout
Cover of the first edition
Authenticity (philosophy)
Videos
Authenticity is a concept of personality in the fields of psychology, existential psychotherapy, existentialist philosophy, and aesthetics. In existentialism, authenticity is the degree to which a per
Escape from Freedom
…abate until we use our 'freedom to' and develop some form of replacement of the old order. However, a common substitute for exercising "freedom to" or authenticity is to submit to an authoritarian system that replaces the old order with another of different external appearance but identical function for the…
Artistic authenticity: The saxophonist Johnny Hodges at work, playing jazz. The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre associated jazz with artistic freedom and improvisation, interpreting it as an expression of existential self-creation.
The punk rock subculture dismisses and excludes poseurs deemed not to understand, abide, or live the value system of the subculture.