Elias Canetti

Crowds and Power

Philosophical essay on crowd behavior and power dynamics

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Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti

Bulgarian-born British author who wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize. His novel Auto-da-Fe is a devastating portrait of a scholar destroyed by his delusions, and his non-fiction Crowds and Power is a major work of social philosophy.

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