Scipio Sighele

The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society (eBook, PDF)

Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society
Redaktion: Pireddu, Nicoletta

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society is the first English collection of writings by Italian jurist, sociologist, cultural and literary critic Scipio Sighele. Sighele is largely responsible for providing post-unification Italy with a new outlook on issues ranging from the blurring line between individual and collective accountability, the role of urbanization in the development of criminality, and the emancipation of women. This work draws a multifaceted portrait of a provocative thinker and public intellectual caught between tradition and modernity during the European fin de sicle. Containing a comprehensive introduction by the editor, The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society includes Sighele's seminal work, The Criminal Crowd, as well as his formative studies on group behaviour. Nicoletta Pireddu contextualizes Sighele's contribution to the so-called 'age-of crowds,' from the fierce polemic with his French rivals Gustave LeBon and Gabriel Tarde to the scientific, literary, and cultural developments of his conceptualization of mass behaviours as a legitimate object of psychological investigation into a new century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781487517359
• Artikelnr.: 54817100

Autorenporträt

By Scipio Sighele Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Nicoletta Pireddu Translated by Nicoletta Pireddu and Andrew Robbins With a Foreword by Tom Huhn

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Tom Huhn
Introduction: "Alchemies of the Collective Soul: Scipio Sighele’s Crimes
and Punishments" By Nicoletta Pireddu
A Note on the Texts and their Translations
The Criminal Crowd. An Essay on Collective Psychology
From The Criminal Couple. A Study in Morbid Psychology
From Sectarian Criminality
From The Intelligence of the Crowd
From The New Woman
From Modern Eve
From Tragic Literature
From In Art and in Science
Index