Escape from Freedom was published outside the Institute without credit to it

Evidence

Escape from Freedom was published in 1941. It represented the psychological study of `Man in the Authoritarian State’ which had been listed as part of the research programme in the Institute’s prospectus of 1938. Fromm had worked on the book between 1936 and 1940, and it was one of the few occasions on which the Institute’s extensive programme of publications actually bore fruit. It was published outside the framework of the Institute, however, and did not contain a single indication of Fromm’s earlier collaboration with the Institute of Social Research, except for a footnote in which an article by Horkheimer was mentioned. Instead, the text was headed by three epigraphs which together virtually paraded Fromm’s humanistic credo. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1125

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Fromm’s working-class study mentioned earlier in the book and to the 1938 prospectus research program. — connects to: Escape from Freedom fulfilled the Institute’s 1938 research programme outside its framework — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1125