Thousands of Little White Blobs
Daniel Pick, 23 November 1989
The Crowd and the Mob: From Plato to Canetti
by J.S. McClelland.
Unwin Hyman, 343 pp., £35, December 1988,0 04 320188 1 Show More
by J.S. McClelland.
Unwin Hyman, 343 pp., £35, December 1988,
“... are more mobile and more complex than they may look at first glance. According to J.S. McClelland in The Crowd and the Mob: From Plato to Canetti, ‘crowds’ have served a complex, shifting but generally reactionary function across much of the Western tradition of political thought. There has been, he suggests, an immemorial moral panic about ... ”