Crowds and Power by Canetti, Elias -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

THE CROWD The Fear of Being Touched The Open and the Closed Crowd The Discharge Destructiveness The Eruption Persecution Domestication of Crowds in the World Religions Panic The Crowd as a Ring The Attributes of the Crowd Rhythm Stagnation Slowness, or the Remoteness of the Goal Invisible Crowds Classification of Crowds according to Their Prevailing Emotion Baiting Crowds Flight Crowds Prohibition Crowds Reversal Crowds Feast Crowds The Double Crowd: Men and Women. The Living and the Dead The Double Crowd: War Crowd Crystals Crowd Symbols:

Fire. The Sea Rain. Rivers. Forest. Corn. Wind. Sand. The Heap. Stone Heaps. Treasure

THE PACK The Pack: Kinds of Pack The Hunting Pack The War Pack The Lamenting Pack The Increase Pack The Communion Inward and Tranquil Packs The Pack’s Determination. The Historical Permanence of Packs Packs in the Ancestor Legends of the Aranda Temporary Formations among the Aranda THE PACK AND RELIGION The Transmutation of Packs Hunting and the Forest among the Lele of Kasai The War Booty of the Jivaros The Rain Dances of the Pueblo Indians On the Dynamics of War. The First Death. The Triumph Islam as a Religion of War The Religions of Lament The Muharram Festival of the Shiites Catholicism and the Crowd The Holy Fire in Jerusalem THE CROWD IN HISTORY National Crowd Symbols:

The English. The Dutch The Germans. The French. The Swiss. The Spaniards. The Italians. The Jews

Germany and Versailles Inflation and the Crowd The Nature of the Parliamentary System Distribution and Increase. Socialism and Production The Self-Destruction of the Xosas THE ENTRAILS OF POWER Seizing and Incorporation The Hand:

The Patience of the Hand. The Finger Exercises of Monkeys The Hands and the Birth of Objects. Destructiveness in Monkeys and Men. The Killers are Always the Powerful

On the Psychology of Eating THE SURVIVOR The Survivor Survival and Invulnerability Survival as a Passion The Ruler as Survivor The Escape of Josephus The Despot’s Hostility to Survivors. Rulers and Their Successors Forms of Survival The Survivor in Primitive Belief The Resentment of the Dead Epidemics Cemeteries Immortality ELEMENTS OF POWER Force and Power Power and Speed Question and Answer Secrecy Judgment and Condemnation The Power of Pardon. Mercy THE COMMAND The Command. Flight and Sting The Domestication of the Command The Recoil. The Anxiety of Command Commands Addressed to More than One Individual The Expectation of Commands Expectation of Command among the Pilgrims at Arafat Discipline and the Sting of Command The Mongols. The Horse and the Arrow Religious Emasculation. The Skoptsy Negativism in Schizophrenia The Reversal The Dissolution of the Sting The Command and the Execution. The Contented Executioner Commands and Irresponsibility TRANSFORMATION Presentiment and Transformation among the Bushmen Flight Transformations. Hysteria, Mania and Melancholia Self-Increase and Self-Consumption. The Double Figure of the Totem Crowds and Transformation in Delirium Tremens Imitation and Simulation The Figure and the Mask The Power of Unmasking Prohibitions on Transformation Slavery ASPECTS OF POWER Human Postures and Their Relation to Power.

Standing. Sitting. Lying Sitting on the Ground. Kneeling

The Orchestral Conductor Fame The Regulation of Time The Court The Rising Throne of the Emperor of Byzantium General Paralytics and Their Notions of Greatness RULERS AND PARANOIACS African Kings A Sultan of Delhi: Muhammad Tughlak The Case of Schreber: I The Case of Schreber: II EPILOGUE The End of the Survivor NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY