Crowds and Power

Elias Canetti

Carol Stewart

Daniel Trilling

• Translated from German by Carol Stewart.
• A groundbreaking study of mass behaviour by the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, Canetti’s visionary analysis of crowds, power and collective psychology remains strikingly relevant in an age of political polarization and global unrest.
• A uniquely interdisciplinary classic, Crowds and Power blends philosophy, history, psychology and personal observation. 
• A foundational text for understanding modern power, Canetti’s masterpiece reveals the deep instincts that drive mass movements, authoritarian leaders and the fragile dynamics of modern societies.

Comps: The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt; Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault, tr. Alan Sheridan; Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, tr. David McLintock