Charisma in Politics, Religion and the Media: Private Trauma, Public Ideals

ISBN-13: 9780333647943 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 121 str.

David Aberbach; D. Aberbach

Opis

Are the origins of charisma the same in politics, the media and religion? This interpretation of charisma argues that the basis of charisma in all its forms must be found in the often-obscure symbolic intersection between the inner world of the charismatic and external social and political reality.

Spis treści

Introduction - Political Charisma: Crisis and Paradox - Churchill in 1940-41: The Fragility of Charisma - Hitler: Charisma and Racism - Charisma and Religion: From Ecstasy to Democracy - Krishnamurti: Reluctant Messiah - Paradoxes of a 'National Poet': the Strange Case of Bialik - Charisma and the Media - Chaplin: Of Crime and Genius - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index

O autorze

DAVID ABERBACH