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The crowd and the mob: from Plato to Canetti
Abstract
1. The Crowd in the Ancient World 2. Some Medieval Crowds and Machiavelli on the Roman People 3. The Crowd and Liberty: Machiavelli, Montesquieu, and America 4. Some Historians on the Crowd before and after the French Revolution: Gibbon, Carlyle, Michelet and Taine 5. The Crowd as a Clue to the Mystery of the Modern World: Taine Against the Enlightenment 6. From the Criminal Crowd to a Social Theory: Scipio Sighele and Gabriel Tarde 7. Crowd Theory Makes its Way in the World: The Le Bon Phenomenon 8. The Leader and his Crowd: Freud's Group Psychology (1921) 9. The Triumph of the Crowd: Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (1924-5) 10. The Sanity of Crowds and the Madness of Power: Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power (1960)
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Metadata
- Venue
- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 1989-12-01
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 04
- Pages
- 27-2222-27-2222
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
- OpenAlex
- W1533294939
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- 203
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- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
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