Crowds and Power

Title: Crowds and Power Author: Elias Canetti ISBN: 9780374518202 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: 1984 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New Social Science 1623175 Publisher Description: Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and the English Civil war, the finger exercises of monkeys and the effects of inflation in Weimar Germany. In this study of the interplay of crowds, Canetti offers one of the most profound and startling portraits of the human condition.