The Crowd and the Mob (Routledge Revivals): From Plato to Canetti - Hardcover

McClelland, J. S.

 
9780415602228: The Crowd and the Mob (Routledge Revivals): From Plato to Canetti
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 041560222X ISBN 13: 9780415602228
Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

First 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.

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J. S. McClelland

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041560222X
ISBN 13 
9780415602228
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
356

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