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Original Title:	The Sane Society
ISBN:	041517791X (ISBN13: 9780415177917)
Edition Language:	English

The Sane Society Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

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Title	:	The Sane Society
Author	:	Erich Fromm
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	January 31st 2003 by Routledge (first published 1955)
Categories	:	Psychology. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Sociology. Politics

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Social psychologist Erich Fromm’s seminal exploration of the profound ills of modern society, and how best to overcome them

One of Fromm’s main interests was to analyze social systems and their impact on the mental health of the individual. In this study, he reaches further and asks: “Can a society be sick?” He finds that it can, arguing that Western culture is immersed in a “pathology of normalcy” that affects the mental health of individuals.

In The Sane Society, Fromm examines the alienating effects of modern capitalism, and discusses historical and contemporary alternatives, particularly communitarian systems. Finally, he presents new ideas for a re-organization of economics, politics, and culture that would support the individual’s mental health and our profound human needs for love and freedom.

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The three of Fromm's books I am familiar with - To Have Or To Be, The Sane Society, and Escape From Freedom - rank above what could be called extremely important. That would be an understatement. In an insane society, and modern society is undoubtedly insane, Fromm's books are among the few that can help us to find our way back to basic sanity, and to simply to survive, and not destroy ourselves; and beyond that, to a decent, just, peaceful, compassionate and free society, and possibly even an

The first few chapters present some enlightening observations of the ails of the human societal condition. Like Marx in his manifesto, he appears to have his finger placed upon the beating pulse of the shifting undercurrents of the collective social experience and its stresses thereupon. Also like Marx, the solutions he presents are detached from his initial observations and more rooted in reverential belief. After an auspicious beginning, Fromm launches into a myriad tirade of the travails of

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In retrospect, the early psychologists and sociologists and all philosphers all vaguely remind me of the think-tank writers that flood the space now, they speak in absolute abstractions: abstract ideals which are held to be absolute truths. This book, it's pompous, it's nonsense, it's sexist as hell, and generally exhausting. There's a reason I can't stand "philosophers" -- well, most of them were actively hateful people, but apart from that -- philosophy is verbal masturbation, receding into

It's been 25 years since I first read this book -- and 45 years since it was first published. It's interesting to reflect on why this book resonated so profoundly when I was a teenager. I must have already shared many of its views, but I remember having a revelatory feeling as I read it, as if truly learning something about human nature and the world we live in. I suppose that's an ancient paradox about education: we can't learn something that is utterly foreign to us, yet by definition learning

This book has been a psychological survival manual for me. I will always be indebted to Fromm for providing me with a way to hold on to hope in the spiritual progress of the human experiment in what is often a spiritually barren world. After all, without that hope, life doesn't really amount to much, despite all the rewards, recognition and shiny trinkets one might hoard to shore up against facing one's emptiness. He's given me better arguments than I could have forged on my own against falling