Crowds and Power
Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and the English Civil war, the finger exercises of monkeys and the effects of inflation in Weimar...
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Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and the English Civil war, the finger exercises of monkeys and the effects of inflation in Weimar Germany. In this study of the interplay of crowds, Canetti offers one of the most profound and startling portraits of the human condition.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374518202 (0374518203)
ASIN: 374518203
Publish date: April 1st 1984
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
European Literature,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Anthropology,
Psychology,
German Literature,
Political Science
Elias Canetti, the Nobel Prize-winning author of this book, would be unhappy to learn that he's now best known as Iris Murdoch's one-time lover. I had heard that he was the prototype of the diabolical Julius King in A Fairly Honourable Defeat, and I'd also read various lurid accounts of their affair...
A long-term dipping-into book. Recommended on a blog by Charles Lemos, at [now defunct] bythefault.com. Goes deeper and wider than Hoffer's "True Believer."Trivia: Canetti is thought to have been Iris Murdoch's model for The Black Prince.
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