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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Five distinct kinds of crowd may be identified by their emotional tone and content alone.
Chapter 3: The crowd originates in the 'pack,' of which there exist four different forms in all.
Chapter 4: Christian and Shia Islamic rituals reveal their beginnings within the tradition of lamenting packs.
Chapter 5: Nations are crowds people connect with by means of shared symbols.
Chapter 6: To seize, kill, and eat are power acts symbolized by hands, fingers, and the mouth.
Chapter 7: Survivors seem powerful precisely because survival itself is perceived as a mark of power.
Chapter 8: Power’s symbols, along with concealing one’s real thoughts, play a major part in preserving authority and control.
Chapter 9: Commands began as death threats and were only later domesticated over time.
Chapter 10: Transformation is central to power, as southern African Bushmen have long understood well.
Chapter 11: Rank, posture, and time’s regulation are likewise linked closely to power itself.
Description
Crowds and Power (1960) is a troubling, prophetic and erudite analysis of human groups and their interaction with power. Written by Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, it asks why humans who prize individuality seek out membership in crowds and how rulers exploit that desire. This study is as wide-ranging in the sources it draws upon as it is thought-provoking in the conclusions it reaches.
Who Should Listen
- Readers of classic books
- Sociologists, historians and philosophers
- Anyone with an interest in the dynamics of crowds and power