Crowds and power
Title:
Crowds and power
Author:
Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994 author.
ISBN:
9780374518202
Personal 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