Description
Elias Canetti explores in his extensive historical and sociological work the causes and consequences of the interaction between power structures and the movement of masses, particularly fateful for the 20th century. Canetti, a Nobel Prize laureate in literature, worked on his opus for nearly 20 years and regarded it as his highest achievement among all his works. This extensive essay on crowd psychology, first published in 1960, discusses how an individual loses their anxieties and inhibitions in a crowd, blissfully dissolving into the mass. For the author, the crowd is a dangerous element and a predatory creature, while power is the tool for its control. Over more than half a century of its existence, the book has become a literary classic, and its relevance is undiminished by time, as the issues of human masses, their manipulability, and the potential for the abuse of power remain alive.
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Author: Canetti Elias
Publication date: December 3, 2018
Manufacturer: Středisko spol. činností AV ČR, v. v. i.
Genres: Psychology, Non-fiction literature, Books, Specialized and technical literature, Social sciences
Pages: 624
ISBN/EAN: 9788020029171