The Psychology of Socialism

ISBN-13: 9780878557035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 466 str.

Gustave Le Bon

Opis

The Psychology of Socialism was first published in 1899 in a period of crisis for French democracy. The Third Republic had survived an attempted coup d'etat, only to be confronted with what Georges Sorel and others called the "Bohemian revolution"-the triumph of radical and socialist forces in the Dreyfus Affair. The emotionalism and hysteria of the period convinced Le Bon that most political controversy is based neither on reasoned deliberation nor rational interest, but on a psychology that partakes of hysterical religiosity.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Preface to the Third Edition, PREFACE, BOOK I THE SOCIALISTIC THEORIES AND THEIR DISCIPLES, BOOK II SOCIALISM AS A BELIEF, BOOK III SOCIALISM AS AFFECTED BY RACE, BOOK IV THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ECONOMIC NECESSITIES AND THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE SOCIALISTS, BOOK V THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE LAWS OF EVOLUTION, THE DEMOCRATIC IDEAL, AND THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE SOCIALISTS, BOOK VI THE DESTINIES OF SOCIALISM

O autorze

Gustave Le Bon