Crowds & Power
New York: The Viking Press, 1962.
First U. S. Edition. Hardcover.
Translated from the German by Carol Stewart.
A look at the interplay between crowds and power in which 1981 Nobel Prize Winner Elias Canetti investigates how a person hitherto unknown may be thrown up by a crowd and become able to wield a power more absolute than that of an established former ruler. With sections on The Crowd; The Pack; The Pack and Religion; The Crowd in History; The Entrails of Power; The Survivor; Elements of Power; The Command; Transformation; Aspects of Power; Rulers and Paranoiacs. Among its examples: Pueblo rain dances, Shiite festivals and the English Civil war, the finger exercises of monkey, and the effects of inflation in Weimar Germany.
Item #9022775-3/4 x 8-5/8", black cloth with gilt titles, 495pp, epilogue, notes, bibliography.
Bumping to lower corner front board, a few faint stains to edges of text block, clean of owner's marks, tight, square, very good in spine-faded dust wrapper with a bit of edge-wear.
Price: $300.00