Crowds and power
by
 
Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994 author.

Title
Crowds and power

Author
Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994 author.

ISBN
9780374518202

Personal Author
Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994 author.

Uniform Title
Masse und Macht. English

Physical Description
495 pages ; 23 cm

General Note
Reprint. Originally published: London : V. Gallancz, 1962

Contents
The crowd -- The pack -- The pack and religion -- The crowd in history -- The entrails of power -- The survivor -- Elements of power -- The command -- Transformation -- Aspects of power -- Rulers and paranoiacs --- Epilogue

Abstract
Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and the English Civil war, the finger exercises of monkeys and the effects of inflation in Weimar Germany. In this study of the interplay of crowds, Canetti offers one of the most profound and startling portraits of the human condition

Subject Term
Crowds
 
Collective behavior
 
Power (Social sciences)


LibraryMaterial TypeItem BarcodeShelf NumberStatus
IYTE LibraryBookB034009HM281 .C3613 1984Rafta