The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind


Gelesen von Oxenhandler

(4.3 stars; 40 reviews)

"Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds. Crowds are only powerful for destruction. Their rule is always tantamount to a barbarian phase. A civilisation involves fixed rules, discipline, a passing from the instinctive to the rational state, forethought for the future, an elevated degree of culture — all of them conditions that crowds, left to themselves, have invariably shown themselves incapable of realising. In consequence of the purely destructive nature of their power crowds act like those microbes which hasten the dissolution of enfeebled or dead bodies. When the structure of a civilisation is rotten, it is always the masses that bring about its downfall." - Gustave Le Bon, from Introduction (5 hr 52 min)

Kapitel

Preface, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind 8:32 Gelesen von Oxenhandler
Introduction, The Era of Crowds 16:04 Gelesen von Oxenhandler
General Characteristics of Crowds— Psychological Law of Their Mental Unity 20:25 Gelesen von Oxenhandler
The Sentiments and Morality of Crowds 44:45 Gelesen von Oxenhandler
The Ideas, Reasoning Power and Imagination of Crowds 20:18 Gelesen von Oxenhandler
A Religious Shape Assumed by all the Convictions of Crowds 11:12 Gelesen von Oxenhandler
Remote Factors of the Opinions and Beliefs of Crowds 41:15 Gelesen von Oxenhandler
The Immediate Factors of the Opinions of Crowds 27:47 Gelesen von Oxenhandler
The Leaders of Crowds and their Means of Persuasion 42:35 Gelesen von Oxenhandler
Limitations of the Variability of the Beliefs and Opinions of Crowds 23:59 Gelesen von Oxenhandler
The Classification of Crowds 7:46 Gelesen von Oxenhandler
Crowds Termed Criminal Crowds 9:12 Gelesen von Oxenhandler
Criminal Juries 16:00 Gelesen von Oxenhandler
Electoral Crowds 19:22 Gelesen von Oxenhandler
Parliamentary Assemblies 42:52 Gelesen von Oxenhandler

Bewertungen

Reader has good potential, but...


(3 stars)

He needs to slow down, and learn to read with good phrasing, rhythm, inflection and cadence. Comes across as a novice reading here. Honestly though, I feel this reader has really great potential. Keep improving.

Extraordinary book, less-than-extraordinary reader.


(4 stars)

The book is brilliant and depressing; the reader sounds like an executioner.


(5 stars)

Oxenhandler did an excellent job of reading this controversial but relevant text.

Very outdated perspective and practices, still used today🙄😬🤔


(3 stars)