18 books like Escape from Freedom

What to read after Escape from Freedom — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

La belle bête Marie-Claire Blais · 1959 · 125p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Peintres, musiciens, poètes, photographes, chorégraphes multiplient les regards égoïstes ou généreux sur l'univers que décrit Marie-Claire Blais, le plus souvent impuissants face à sa destruction qu'ils fuient dans l'alcool ou la drogue, parfois l'amour ou plus souvent le sexe. Le monde lui-même explose, spatialement et temporellement, puisque ce récit très contemporain se projette souvent dans… Shares: Liberté, Freedom, Liberty

Made to stick Chip Heath · 1998 · ★ 4.0 · 291p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on." His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas--business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others--struggle to make their ideas "stick." Why do some ideas thrive… Shares: Psychologie sociale, Social psychology, Psychology

Pedagogia do Oprimido Paulo Freire · 1967 · ★ 4.3 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "The methodology of the late Paulo Freire, once considered such a threat to the established order that he was "invited" to leave his native Brazil, has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of permanent underclass among the underprivileged and… Shares: Freedom, Liberty

The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the… Shares: Psychologie sociale, Social psychology, Psychology

Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill · 1863 · ★ 3.7 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging "Because Utilitarianism is a work of enduring value, it is easy to forget that Mill meant for it to be a topical and relevant contribution to the moral debates of his time. In this edition of Mill's essay, Colin Heydt situates the work in its historical context by supplementing the text of the essay with appendices containing excerpts of related works by Mill's predecessors, Mill himself, and… Shares: Freedom, Liberty

La Société du spectacle Guy Debord · 1967 · ★ 4.0 · 167p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism and everyday life in the late twentieth cenlury. Now finally available in a superb… Shares: Psychologie sociale, Social psychology

Human Nature and Conduct An Introduction to Social Psychology John Dewey · 1922 · ★ 3.9 · 346p · ≈ 11h · Challenging nfluential work by the great educator/philosopher maintains that the key to social psychology lies in an understanding of the many varieties of habit; individual mental activity is guided by subordinate factors of impulse and intelligence. His investigation focuses on three main areas of conduct: habit, impulse, and intelligence, with each factor receiving an incisive treatment. Shares: Psychologie sociale, Social psychology

All God's Children Aaron Gwyn · 2020 This sweeping novel set in the province of Texas is "a powerful depiction of the rough realities of frontier life [and] the vicious influence of racism" (The New York Times).Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award for Fiction In 1827, Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in the province of Texas, hoping that here he may live—and love—as he… Shares: Liberté, Liberty

De la démocratie en Amérique Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835 · ★ 4.1 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Challenging A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist. In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was Democracy in America, a subtle and prescient analysis of… Shares: Democracy, Religion

Growing Yourself Up Jenny Brown, MSW · 2012 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate To be human is to be in relationships. We can't survive without them but at the same time it's in our relationships that we so easily come unravelled. There are certain relationships that seem to just do us in. Either we feel like we lose ourselves or we feel burnt out from unsuccessful efforts to make things right for another. In our relationships we can experience the very best of ourselves and… Shares: Social psychology, Psychology

Capitalism and freedom Milton Friedman · 1962 · ★ 3.7 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war"How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for… Shares: Liberté, Liberty

Eros and Civilization Herbert Marcuse · 1955 · ★ 3.9 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate This is Herbert Marcuse's masterpiece which transfixed youth in the 1960s, convincing the New Left there was hope in revolutionary activity. It's also Marcuse encounter with Signmund Freud, well worth the time to decipher it. Narcuse is optimistic, in that if we tame or transform capitalism, we can fix ourselves. It's a far cry from Freud's pessimistic outlook. Shares: Psychologie sociale, Social psychology, Psychology

Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition Charles H. Bohner · 1989 · 1180p · ≈ 39h · Challenging Roses, rhododendron / A. Adams -- The egg ; I want to know why / S. Anderson -- Rape fantasies / M. Atwood -- The story of my dovecot / I. Babel -- Sonny's blues / J. Baldwin -- The lesson / T.C. Bambara -- My mother's memoirs, my father's lie, and other true stories / R. Banks -- Lost in the funhouse / J. Barth -- A city of churches / D. Barthelme -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / A. Bierce… Shares: Freedom, Psychology

Authority and the Individual Bertrand Russell · 1949 · ★ 3.9 · 101p · ≈ 3h · Challenging From Ancient Greek philosophy to the French Revolution to the modern welfare state, in Authority & the Individual Bertrand Russell tackles the perennial questions about the balance between authority & human freedom. With characteristic clarity & deep understanding, he explores the formation & purpose of society, education, moral evolution & social, economical & intellectual progress. First of the… Shares: Individualism, Social psychology, Psychology

On Liberty John Stuart Mill · 1859 · ★ 4.0 Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares: Liberté, Liberty

Précis de décomposition Emil Cioran · 1949 · ★ 4.2 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Challenging "Toute idée devrait être neutre ; mais l'homme l'anime, y projette ses flammes et ses démences : le passage de la logique à l'épilepsie est consommée... Ainsi naissent les mythologies, les doctrines, et les farces sanglantes. Point d'intolérance ou de prosélytisme qui ne révèle le fond bestial de l'enthousiasme. Ce qu'il faut détruire dans l'homme, c'est sa propension à croire, son appétit de… Shares: Psychologie sociale, Social psychology

The crisis of psychoanalysis Erich Fromm · 1932 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Dr. Fromm analyzes the role and promise of psychoanalysis in nine brilliant essays. Shares: Psychologie sociale, Social psychology

Nudge Richard H. Thaler · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Thaler and Sunstein develop libertarian paternalism as a middle path between command-and-control and strict-neutrality choice architectures. Libertarian paternalism protects humans against their damaging psychological traits (inertia, bounded rationality, undue influence) by exploiting those habits to nudge people into making better choices. Shares: Autonomy, Psychology

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