The Crowd - Le Bon, Gustave
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The world of the 18th and 19th centuries had been wracked by change and revolution. Gustave Le Bon, a doctor by trade but wandering philosopher by avocation, was a first-hand witness to one such revolution: the establishment of the Paris Commune in 1871, in which a crowd of mutinous National Guardsmen seized the city and established a socialist government for two brief months in what Engels called one of the first examples of a ¿dictatorship of the proletariat.¿ After that revolution, Le Bon left to travel the world, developing his theories on the psychology of crowds. The Crowd is his…mehr

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The world of the 18th and 19th centuries had been wracked by change and revolution. Gustave Le Bon, a doctor by trade but wandering philosopher by avocation, was a first-hand witness to one such revolution: the establishment of the Paris Commune in 1871, in which a crowd of mutinous National Guardsmen seized the city and established a socialist government for two brief months in what Engels called one of the first examples of a ¿dictatorship of the proletariat.¿ After that revolution, Le Bon left to travel the world, developing his theories on the psychology of crowds. The Crowd is his distillation of that philosophy, and one of the earliest treatises exploring the behavior and motivations of crowds of people. In it, Le Bon posits that with the rise of democracy and industrialization, it¿s the unreasoning crowds who will control the affairs of the people, not kings or the elite; and these crowds are largely irrational in action, conservative in thought, violent both in act and in speech, and easily hypnotized by individuals with prestige but not intelligence. Le Bon is ultimately cynical in how he views this development in human affairs. Individuals in crowds feel anonymous and powerful, leading to destruction and violence; and the susceptibility of crowds to pure charisma means that they¿re easily dominated by thuggish men of action, not wise men of foresight. People in a crowd are ¿a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.¿ His conclusion is that the increasing relevance and power of crowds in modern society will lead to negative outcomes in the long term. In his view, democracy can only lead to more and more violent crowds, who demand charismatic figureheads to give them meaning. As one of the earliest examples of the study of crowd psychology, The Crowd was a direct influence on many titanic figures in 20th century history, including Theodore Roosevelt, Freud, Mussolini, Lenin, and Hitler.
Autorenporträt
Gustave Le Bon, né le 7 mai 1841 à Nogent-le-Rotrou et mort le 13 décembre 1931 à Marnes-la-Coquette, est un médecin, anthropologue, psychologue social et sociologue français. Polygraphe, intervenant dans des domaines variés, il est l'auteur de 43 ouvrages en 60 ans, traduits en une dizaine de langues de son vivant et plusieurs fois réédités entre 1890 et 1920, dans lesquels il aborde, parmi d'autres sujets, le désordre comportemental et la psychologie des foules. Le Bon reste une personnalité controversée. D¿une part, à une époque où la méthode devient importante, son « amateurisme » gêne ses contemporains tels que Durkheim, sans que cela ait vraiment d¿influence sur son début de carrière. D¿autre part, Le Bon présente dans ses travaux des tendances plutôt anticléricales. Le Bon admet des différences au niveau des stades de développement des civilisations, et soutient la théorie du biologiste darwinien allemand Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919). Il consacre un gros volume illustré à la Civilisation des Arabesn. Après une mission aux Indes, il publie, en 1887, un autre ouvrage majeur, Les Civilisations de l¿Inde2. Psychologie des foules marqua un tournant dans la carrière du « célèbre docteur». Cette ¿uvre, parue en 1895, reste la plus célèbre aujourd¿hui. « L¿âge où nous entrons sera véritablement l¿ère des foules. [¿] Aujourd'hui ce sont les traditions politiques, les tendances individuelles des souverains, leurs rivalités qui ne comptent plus, et, au contraire, la voix des foules qui est devenue prépondérante. » ¿ Gustave Le Bon, Psychologie des foules, 1895