The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind


Lu par Oxenhandler

(4.3 étoiles; 47 critiques)

"Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds. Crowds are only powerful for destruction. Their rule is always tantamount to a barbarian phase. A civilisation involves fixed rules, discipline, a passing from the instinctive to the rational state, forethought for the future, an elevated degree of culture — all of them conditions that crowds, left to themselves, have invariably shown themselves incapable of realising. In consequence of the purely destructive nature of their power crowds act like those microbes which hasten the dissolution of enfeebled or dead bodies. When the structure of a civilisation is rotten, it is always the masses that bring about its downfall." - Gustave Le Bon, from Introduction

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Preface, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind 8:32 Lu par Oxenhandler
Introduction, The Era of Crowds 16:04 Lu par Oxenhandler
General Characteristics of Crowds— Psychological Law of Their Mental Unity 20:25 Lu par Oxenhandler
The Sentiments and Morality of Crowds 44:45 Lu par Oxenhandler
The Ideas, Reasoning Power and Imagination of Crowds 20:18 Lu par Oxenhandler
A Religious Shape Assumed by all the Convictions of Crowds 11:12 Lu par Oxenhandler
Remote Factors of the Opinions and Beliefs of Crowds 41:15 Lu par Oxenhandler
The Immediate Factors of the Opinions of Crowds 27:47 Lu par Oxenhandler
The Leaders of Crowds and their Means of Persuasion 42:35 Lu par Oxenhandler
Limitations of the Variability of the Beliefs and Opinions of Crowds 23:59 Lu par Oxenhandler
The Classification of Crowds 7:46 Lu par Oxenhandler
Crowds Termed Criminal Crowds 9:12 Lu par Oxenhandler
Criminal Juries 16:00 Lu par Oxenhandler
Electoral Crowds 19:22 Lu par Oxenhandler
Parliamentary Assemblies 42:52 Lu par Oxenhandler

Critiques

Reader has good potential, but...


(3 étoiles)

He needs to slow down, and learn to read with good phrasing, rhythm, inflection and cadence. Comes across as a novice reading here. Honestly though, I feel this reader has really great potential. Keep improving.

Extraordinary book, less-than-extraordinary reader.


(4 étoiles)

The book is brilliant and depressing; the reader sounds like an executioner.


(5 étoiles)

Oxenhandler did an excellent job of reading this controversial but relevant text.