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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Written by Gustave Le Bon

Narrated by Glen Reed

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Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (1841 –1931) was a French polymath who wrote on anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work ‘The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind’, which is considered a seminal work of crowd psychology. In the book, Le Bon identifies the primary characteristics of crowd psychology as impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason, the absence of critical judgement, and the exaggeration of feelings. Le Bon claims that an individual immersed for some length of time in a crowd soon finds himself in a special psychological state, which resembles the state in which a hypnotized individual finds himself under the influence of the hypnotizer. One of Le Bon’s disturbing insights is that a man descends several rungs in the ladder of civilisation by the mere fact that he forms part of an organised crowd.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAuthor's Republic
Release dateOct 9, 2019
ISBN9781982783365
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Gustave Le Bon

Gustave Le Bon est un médecin, anthropologue, psychologue social et sociologue français. Polygraphe, intervenant dans des domaines variés, il est l'auteur de 43 ouvrages en 60 ans, traduits en une dizaine de langues de son vivant et plusieurs fois réédités entre 1890 et 1920, dans lesquels il aborde, parmi d'autres sujets, le désordre comportemental et la psychologie des foules. Le Bon participe par la suite activement à la vie intellectuelle française. En 1902, il crée la Bibliothèque de philosophie scientifique chez Flammarion, qui est un vrai succès d'édition, avec plus de 220 titres publiés et plus de deux millions de livres vendus à la mort de Le Bon en 1931. À partir de 1902 il organise une série de « déjeuners du mercredi » auxquels sont conviées des personnalités telles que Henri et Raymond Poincaré, Paul Valéry, Émile Picard, Camille Saint-Saëns, Marie Bonaparte, Aristide Briand, Henri Bergson, etc. Il convie également à ces déjeuners la comtesse Greffulhe, icône de la Belle-Époque et inspiratrice de Proust pour À la recherche du temps perdu, avec qui il entretient une correspondance aussi abondante que familière.

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    Apr 5, 2024

    Interesting book. I didn't like his suggestion that groups of different races have inherent different ways of acting, and he was very condescending to the common man but still some interesting points