Crowds and Power (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Elias Canetti
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Cultural criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Power, personal or social, Self, Human race, Life and death, Sociology, Crowds
Form and Content
It may be that many writers have a lifelong theme they are committed to exploring. The English philosopher-historian Isaiah Berlin calls such writers hedgehogs, as opposed to foxes, since they have but one burrow to inhabit, one issue to which they adhere. Despite the seeming diversity of his works, Elias Canetti is a hedgehog. Though multilingual (his first language is Ladino but he writes in German) and highly educated—and thus superlatively equipped to build systems of thought—he remained throughout his long career preoccupied with the theme of crowds...
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