The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Gustave Le Bon

226 pages first pub 1895 (editions)

nonfiction politics psychology sociology reflective slow-paced

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In this work Le Bon makes a careful study of the character and scope of the activities of crowds and mobs. He bases all his propositions about these phenomena on his general theory of the nature of social interpretation as set forth in his prior w...

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