Crowds and Popular Power: Reading Elias Canetti in Caracas

There are strong continuities between crowd theory, which flowered during the early twentieth century, and theories of populist mobilization. Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power (1960) bridges these two literatures. Canetti gives us two relatively underappreciated ideas—the sting of command and th...

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Published in:	Social research Vol. 90; no. 2; pp. 407 - 431
Main Author:	Samet, Robert
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Johns Hopkins University Press 01.06.2023
Subjects:	19th century 20th century Anthropology Austrian literature British & Irish literature Canetti, Elias (1905-1994) Complaints Crowds History Mobilization Nobel prizes Political movements Politics Populism Power Reading Street performances Theory Transformation Venezuela Caracas Venezuela
ISSN:	0037-783X, 1944-768X, 1944-768X
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