Then and Now: On the Crowd, the Subject, and the Collective

by Rosalind Morris, Betty Berardo Fuks, Paola Mieli

This collection of essays offers some novel reflections on the nature of the crowd, the collective, and the subject's relation to the social link. Prompted mainly by Freud's Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego, the authors analyze crucial issues ranging from La Boétie's late Renaissance theory of voluntary servitude to the early 20th-century Europe's collapsed empires and revolutionary uprisings, to progressive South Africans' turn to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946328480
• ISBN13: 9781946328489
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Sea Horse Imprint
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"