The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology - Softcover

Fromm, Erich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159056183X ISBN 13: 9781590561836

Publisher: American Mental Health Foundation, 2010

Synopsis

"The Revolution of Hope lives up to its title with an uplifting exploration of the definition of hope, what it truly means to be human, and steps that should be taken to promote humanization in an increasingly disconnected and technology-driven society. [The American Mental Health Foundation's Fromm titles] are timely, directly relevant to modern psychological and social issues, and bring absolutely invaluable humanist messages to temper psychology's scientific and healing discipline. Highly recommended, especially for college library collections."

―Midwest Book Review

First published in 1968, the year of international-student confrontation and revolution, this classic challenges readers to choose which of two roads humankind ought to take: the one, leading to a completely mechanized society with the individual a helpless cog in a machine bent on mass destruction; or the second, being the path of humanism and hope.

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About the Author

Erich Fromm (1900-1980) was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His best known work, Escape from Freedom (1941), focuses on the human urge to seek a source of authority and control upon reaching a freedom that was thought to be an individual’s true desire. Fromm’s critique of the modern political order and capitalist system led him to seek insights from medieval feudalism. His many works (in English) include Psychoanalysis and Religion (1950); The Art of Loving (1956); and On Being Human (1997).

Edition details

• Publisher: American Mental Health Foundation
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 159056183X
• ISBN 13: 9781590561836
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160