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082 _a302.33 MCC
100 _aMcCelland, J. S.
245 0 _aCrowd and the mob
_bFrom Plato to Canetti
260 _aLondon
260 _bRoutledge
260 _c1989
300 _a343p.
365 _b9000
365 _dRS
520 _aFirst 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. The book examines histories of political thought and their justifications for forms of rule, highlighting the persistent and profoundly anti-democratic bias in political and social thought, analysing in particular the writings of Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Hitler, Gibbon, Carlysle, Michelet, Taine and Freud.
650 _aCrowds-Political aspects
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