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

SeriesColumbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 257-295) and index.
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LCCN 2013000641
ISBN9780231164788 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN9780231535793 (ebook)

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