Escape from Freedom

This translation of “Escape from Freedom” comes at a time when the number of speakers on freedom and democracy has surpassed that of any previous era. It comes at a time when the massive psychological influence of the media, across various stations, websites, newspapers, and magazines, is intensifying, creating specific impressions of the fixed meanings of the problem of freedom and its solutions—liberalism, fundamentalism, imperialist propaganda, and others. Since the perspective in all media centers, despite their proliferation, is a one-sided value perspective, even among many advocates of political pluralism, rather than one that recognizes the psychological, social, economic, and cultural interconnections, the book “Escape from Freedom,” with its analyses and investigations based on an understanding of these interconnections, comes at the right time. This book presents the important distinction between the negative and positive aspects of freedom. The term “freedom,” used in various languages ​​and cultures, often overlooks the positive aspect of freedom. It is used in one of two senses: liberation or negative freedom, meaning freedom from external obstacles. However, internal restraints are often much stronger than actual external pressures.