Notes, 1954-1971

Canetti, Elias; Hargraves, J. Lee

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“…Crowds and Power (Canetti, 1962) is Elias Canetti's magnum opus . He wrote in his Notes (Canetti, 1998), ‘How do I feel about my finished book? It reads well, better and better, perhaps.…”

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Oyebode

2002

Br J Psychiatry

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This is an opportunity, but also a challenge, to write about books, especially at a time when the pre-eminence of books as the source and repository of knowledge is no longer indisputable. It is, of course, an impossible task to select merely ten books with the implication that these ten have been the most influential in my professional career, which is the same thing as saying that they have been the most influential books in my life. I have selected ten books from literature, philosophy and psychiatry, and these books, drawn from all my main interests, serve as the springboard for discussing other books. There is no principle underlying the order in which the books are discussed. In many respects, the order has been dictated by the internal logic of this essay.

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“…If it had been one book among five or six, how proud I could be of it! For half a lifetime it is too little’ (Canetti, 1998: p. 27). This book is difficult to classify.…”

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2002

Br J Psychiatry

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Crowds, leaders, and epidemic psychosis: The relationship between crowd psychology and elite theory and its contemporary relevance

Damele

2022

Front. Polit. Sci.

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The influence of the authors of the so-called “crowd psychology” on the conventional interpretation of the “irrationality” of the masses in political life has been widely recognized. More recently, Ernesto Laclau has underlined the influence of this tradition on the liberal-democratic views on direct, mass democracy. This conventional interpretation may be reconstructed starting from different intellectual traditions: crowd psychology, properly speaking, its complementary, the “classical” elite theory, and the influence of the positivist analysis of the “criminal” and “psychopathological” behaviors of the masses. However, this influence, far from being confined to the liberal distaste for mass democracy, has been relevant not only for the fascist regimes of the 20th century but also for the contemporary right-wing populist interpretation of the role of the masses in political life, in spite of its purported antielitism.

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