Crowds and power

By:

Canetti, Elia

Contributor(s):

Stewart, Carol (Tr.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London; Victor Gollancz; 1962Description: 495pISBN:

9780374518202

Subject(s):

Social psychology

DDC classification:

302.33 CAN

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	302.33 CAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		35169

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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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