Masse und Macht

Crowds and Power

Author

Elias Canetti

Language

German

Year

1960

Country

Germany

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

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Crowds and Power is a 1960 book by Elias Canetti, dealing with the dynamics of crowds and "packs" and the question of how and why crowds obey power of rulers. Canetti draws a parallel between ruling and paranoia. The book analyzes the memoirs of Daniel Paul Schreber and Sigmund Freud's book on them, and Gustave Le Bon.