内容简介：
"Crowds and Power" is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and the English Civil war, the finger exercises of monkeys and the effects of inflation in Weimar Germany. In this study of the interplay of crowds, Canetti offers one of the most profound and startling portraits of the human condition.
作者简介：
埃利亚斯・卡内提：1905年生于保加利亚，祖先是居住在西班牙的犹太人。先后在苏黎世、维也纳、法兰克福等地求学，获哲学博士学位。卡内提使用德语写作，一生潜心研究文学、历史。迄今为止，出版了20多部著作，其中最有影响力的便是这部《群众与权力》（1960年）。