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

ISBN-13: 9781349396238 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 121 str.

D. Aberbach

Opis

What are the origins of charisma? Are these the same in the various forms of public life, in politics and the media as well as in religion? In this new and radical interpretation of charisma, David Aberbach 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. As illustrations of various facets of this argument, he provides general analyses of charisma in politics, religion and the media as well as individual studies of Churchill, Hitler, Krishnamurti, Bialik and Chaplin.

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