J S Mcclelland

The Crowd and the Mob (Routledge Revivals)

From Plato to Canetti

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1989, this persuasive and original work by John McClelland examines the importance of the idea of 'the crowd' in the writings of philosophers, historians and politicians from the classical era to the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780415602228
• ISBN-10: 041560222X
• Artikelnr.: 30517563

Autorenporträt

J. S. McClelland

Inhaltsangabe

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)