The Crowd and the Mob (Routledge Revivals): From Plato to Canetti

ISBN-13: 9780415602228 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 356 str.

J. S. McClelland

Opis

This title examines the importance of the idea of 'the crowd' in the writings of philosophers, historians & politicians from the classical era to the 20th century. It explores histories of political thought & their justifications for forms of rule, highlighting the persistent & profoundly anti-democratic bias in political & social thought.

Spis treści

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)

O autorze

J. S. McClelland