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Although wide-ranging in its erudition, this essay is not scholarly or academic in a conventional way. Rather, it reads a bit like a manual written by someone outside the human race explaining to
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On asking questions: "On the questioner the effect is a feeling of enhanced power. He enjoys this and consequentially asks more and more questions; every answer he receives is an act of
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outsider in concise and highly metaphoric language how people form mobs and manipulate power. However, Canetti also uses "we" in his text and does not dissociate from humanity.
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which can be understood within the framework Canetti puts forth. It shows the growth of crowds and their power against even the power of the state.
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McClelland, John: "The Place of Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power in the History of Western Social and Political Thought."
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The book was translated from German into English by Carol Stewart in 1962 and published by
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of rulers. Canetti draws a parallel between ruling and paranoia. Also, the memoirs of
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This work remains important for the insights it provided into the
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and "packs" and the question of how and why crowds obey
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Elias Canetti
German
Elias Canetti
crowds
power
Daniel Paul Schreber
Sigmund Freud
Gustave Le Bon
Gollancz
another
submission
Eastern European upheaval
Brill, Lesley
"Terrorism, Crowds and Power, and the Dogs of War"
doi
10.1353/anq.2003.0004
JSTOR
3318363
S2CID
144861590
Canetti, Elias
ISBN
0-374-51820-3
Honneth, Axel

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