Crowds And Power
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Book: Good
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Pages: Good
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A landmark work of social and political philosophy, Crowds and Power presents one of the most ambitious and unsettling analyses of human collective behavior ever written. Elias Canetti argues that the crowd — that primal, boundary-dissolving mass of bodies — is not merely a sociological curiosity but a fundamental force shaping history, politics, and the human psyche. With sweeping erudition and a tone that is at once clinical and deeply urgent, the work chronicles the dynamics of crowd formation, the intoxicating release of individuality within the mass, and the terrifying mechanisms by which power seizes upon and manipulates collective energy. Drawing on anthropology, mythology, psychology, and history, Canetti illustrates how rulers throughout the ages have wielded the crowd as an instrument of domination, and how the fear of being touched, the hunger for survival, and the symbols of command are woven into the very fabric of civilization. Dense, visionary, and profoundly original, this Nobel Prize–winning masterwork remains an indispensable lens through which to understand the darkest impulses of human society.
Author: Elias Canetti
Format: Paperback
Published: 1978, The Seabury Press
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Foxing on block - does not extend internally.
A landmark work of social and political philosophy, Crowds and Power presents one of the most ambitious and unsettling analyses of human collective behavior ever written. Elias Canetti argues that the crowd — that primal, boundary-dissolving mass of bodies — is not merely a sociological curiosity but a fundamental force shaping history, politics, and the human psyche. With sweeping erudition and a tone that is at once clinical and deeply urgent, the work chronicles the dynamics of crowd formation, the intoxicating release of individuality within the mass, and the terrifying mechanisms by which power seizes upon and manipulates collective energy. Drawing on anthropology, mythology, psychology, and history, Canetti illustrates how rulers throughout the ages have wielded the crowd as an instrument of domination, and how the fear of being touched, the hunger for survival, and the symbols of command are woven into the very fabric of civilization. Dense, visionary, and profoundly original, this Nobel Prize–winning masterwork remains an indispensable lens through which to understand the darkest impulses of human society.