The age of the crowd : a historical treatise on mass pychology / Serge Moscovici ; translated by J.C. Whitehouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moscovici, Serge.

Standardized Title:

Age des foules. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Collective behavior--History.

Collective behavior.

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 408 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1985.

Contents:

Part I The Study of the Masses

1 The individual and the masses

2 The revolt of the masses

3 What do we do when faced with the masses?

4 Eastern and western varieties of despotism

Part II Le Bon and the Fear of Cowards

1 Who was Gustave Le Bon?

2 The Machiavelli of mass societies

3 Four reasons for saying nothing

4 The discovery of the masses

5 Mass hypnosis

6 The mental life of crowds

Part III The Crowd, Women and Madness

1 Collective matter: the impulsive and conservative crowd

2 Collective form: the dogmatic and utopian crowd

3 The leaders of the crowd

4 Charisma

5 The strategies of propaganda and mass suggestion

6 Conclusion

Part IV The Leader Principle

1 The paradox of mass psychology

2 Natural crowds and artificial crowds

3 The leader principle

Part V Opinion and the Crowd

1 Communication is the valium of the people

2 Opinion, the public and the crowd

3 The law of the polarisation of prestige

4 The Republic in France: from a democracy of the masses to a democracy of publics

Part VI The Best Disciple of Le Bon and Tarde: Sigmund Freud

1 The black books of Dr Freud

2 From classical to revolutionary mass psychology

3 The three questions of mass psychology

4 Crowds and the libido

5 The origin of affective attachments in society

6 Eros and mimesis

7 The end of hypnosis

Part VII The Psychology of the Charismatic Leader

1 Prestige and charisma

2 The postulate of mass psychology

3 The primal secret

Part VIII Hypotheses About Great Men

1 'The man Moses'

2 The family romances of great men

3 Creating a people

4 Mosaic and totemic leaders

Part IX Secular Religions

1 The secret of a religion

2 The prohibition of thought

3 The cult of the father.

Notes:

Translation of: L'âge des foules.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 395-399.

ISBN:

0521257743

0521277051

OCLC:

11621460