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The Authoritarian Personality

The Authoritarian Personality
Theodor W. Adorno

The Authoritarian Personality is a 1950 sociology book by Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford, researchers working at the University of California, Berkeley, during and shortly after World War II.

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“Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.”

Theodor W. Adorno book The Authoritarian Personality

The Authoritarian Personality (1950), p. 976, co-written with Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford

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