The Crowd - A Study of the Popular Mind
Written by Gustave Le Bon
Narrated by Graham Dunlop
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About this audiobook
First published in 1895, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind remains one of the most influential works on mass psychology and the behavior of crowds. Gustave Le Bon’s groundbreaking analysis explores how individuals, when part of a crowd, surrender their rationality and adopt a collective mindset driven by emotion, impulse, and unconscious influence.
Le Bon’s insights have shaped the fields of psychology, sociology, and political science, influencing figures from Freud to modern strategists of propaganda and mass persuasion. He dissects how crowds think, how they are swayed by leaders, and how collective behavior can lead to both progress and destruction.
Key Topics Covered:✔️ How individuals lose autonomy within crowds
✔️ The psychological mechanisms behind mass movements
✔️ The power of suggestion and emotional contagion
✔️ How leaders manipulate crowds to achieve their goals
✔️ The role of crowd psychology in revolutions, politics, and social change
A must-listen for those interested in history, social psychology, politics, and the forces that shape public opinion.
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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