Masse und Macht

Author

Elias Canetti

Language

German

Year

1960

Country

Germany

Genre

Nonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)

eastern europejewish authorsmodern europenobel prize

…

📷1 photo

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.