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Ancestral Influences
Ancestral Soul
Animal Kingdom
Author_Gustave Le Bon
belief formation processes
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De Laveleye
democratic instability analysis
emotional drivers of political movements
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Face To Face
group identity theory
Gustave Le Bon
Hereditary Aptitudes
Immense Army
John L. Stanley
latin
Latin Conception
Latin Ideal
Latin Mind
Latin Peoples
Latin Races
Latin Republics
Latin System
Louis Quatorze
Mental Evolution
National Decadence
nations
Parisian Workman
peoples
political mass psychology
Racial Vice
radicalization pathways
social influence mechanisms
Spanish American Republics
Stuart Mill
Unequal Partition
Workman
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780878557035
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1899 during a period of crisis for French democracy, The Psychology of Socialism details Le Bon's view of socialism and radicalism primarily as religious movements. The emotionalism and hysteria of the period—especially as manifested during the Dreyfuss Affair—convinced Le Bon that most political controversy is based neither on reasoned deliberation nor rational interest, but on a psychology that partakes of contatgion andhysteria. Le Bon points to the irrationality of religion and uses the religiosity of socialism to debunk socialism as an irrational movement based on hatred and jealousy.
