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Author Jonsson, Stefan, 1961-

Title Crowds and democracy : the idea and image of the masses from revolution to fascism / Stefan Jonsson.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (335 pages)
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Series Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introducing the Masses : Vienna, 15 July 1927 (Elias Canetti -- Alfred Vierkandt -- Hannah Arendt -- Karl Kraus -- Heimito von Doderer) -- Shooting Psychosis -- Not a Word About the Bastille -- Explaining the Crowd -- Representing Social Passions -- A Work of Madness -- Invincibles -- Mirror for Princes -- Workers on the Run -- Lashing -- Authority Versus Anarchy : Allegories of the Mass in Sociology and Literature (Georg Simmel -- Werner Sombart -- Fritz Lang -- Leopold von Wiese -- Wilhelm Vleugels -- Gerhard Colm -- Max Weber -- Theodor Geiger -- August Sander -- Hermann Broch -- Ernst Toller -- Rainer Maria Rilke) -- The Missing Chapter -- Georg Simmel's Masses -- In Metropolis -- The Architecture of Society -- Steak Tartare -- Delta Formations -- Alarm Bells of History -- Sleepwalkers -- I Am Mass -- Rilke in the Revolution -- The Revolving Nature of the Social : Primal Hordes and Crowds Without Qualities (Sigmund Freud -- Hans Kelsen -- Theodor Adorno -- Wilhelm Reich -- Siegfried Kracauer -- Bertolt Brecht -- Alfred Doblin -- Georg Grosz -- Robert Musil) -- Sigmund Freud Between Individual and Society -- Masses Inside -- In Love with Many -- Primal Hordes -- Masses and Myths -- The Destruction of the Person -- The Flaneur-Medium of Modernity -- Ornaments of the People -- Beyond the Bourgeoisie -- Shapeless Lives -- Organizing the Passions -- Collective Vision : A Matrix for New Art and Politics (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Marianne Brandt -- Walter Benjamin -- Ernst Junger -- Edmund Schultz -- Willi Munzenberg -- Der Arbeiter-Fotograf -- Erwin Piscator -- Walther Gropius) -- Mass Psychosis and Photoplastics -- Johanna in the Revolution -- A Socialist Eye -- The Secret Code of the Nineteenth Century -- Speaking Commodities -- Deus ex Machina -- Democracy's Veil -- The Face of the Masses -- Learning to Hold a Camera -- The Gaze of the Masses -- Total Theater -- Coda: Remnants of Weimar.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Popular culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Popular culture -- Austria -- History -- 20th century.
Politics and culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Politics and culture -- Austria -- History -- 20th century.
Collective behavior -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Collective behavior -- Political aspects -- Austria -- History -- 20th century.
Democracy -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Democracy -- Social aspects -- Austria -- History -- 20th century.
Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Austria -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Jonsson, Stefan. Crowds and democracy : the idea and image of the masses from revolution to fascism. New York : Columbia University Press, 2013 xx, 312 pages ; 24 cm. Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts 9780231164788 (OCoLC)825050397 (DLC) 2013000641
ISBN 9780231164788
9780231535793 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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