Following the publication of the seminal Fear of Freedom, Erich Fromm applied his unique vision to a critique of contemporary capitalism in The Sane Society. Where the former dealt with man's historic inability to come to terms with his sense of isolation, and the dangers to which this can lead, The Sane Society took his theories one step further.

Chapter 1 Are we Sane?; Chapter 2 Can a Society be Sick?-The Pathology of Normalcy1In this Chapter I have drawn on my paper, "Individual and Social Origins of Neurosis," Am. Soc. Rev. IX, 4, 1944, p. 380 ff.; Chapter 3 The Human Situation-The key to Humanistic Psychoanalysis; Chapter 4 Mental Health and Society; Chapter 5 Man in Capitalistic Society; Chapter 6 Various Other Diagnoses; Chapter 7 Various Answers; Chapter 8 Roads to Sanity; Chapter 9 Summary-Conclusion;