Crowds and Democracy - The Idea and Image of the Masses From Revolution to Fascism

Spanning aesthetics, cultural studies, intellectual history, and political theory, this volume unpacks the significance of the shadow agent known as ¿the mass¿ during a critical period in European history.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Introducing the Masses: Vienna
2. Authority Versus Anarchy: Allegories of the Mass in Sociology and Literature
3. The Revolving Nature of the Social: Primal Hordes and Crowds Without Qualities
4. Collective Vision: A Matrix for New Art and Politics
5. Coda: Remnants of Weimar
Notes
Index

About the author

Stefan Jonsson

Summary

Spanning aesthetics, cultural studies, intellectual history, and political theory, this volume unpacks the significance of the shadow agent known as “the mass” during a critical period in European history.

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Jonsson, Jonsson Stefan
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2013
• EAN: 9780231164788
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16478-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts; Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Political, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Philosophy: aesthetics, Social and cultural anthropology