Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature Emeritus at Stanford University. His books written in English include In 1926 (1998), Production of Presence (Stanford, 2004), In Praise of Athletic Beauty (2006), Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung (Stanford, 2012), After 1945 (Stanford, 2013), and Our Broad Present (2014).
About the Present and the Presence of Crowds: Preface to the English
Translation of a German Book
1. Empty Stadiums
2. Stadium-Masses
3. The Contempt for the Masses
4. Masses of the Past
5. In the Crowd-Laterally: Swarms, Mirror Neurons, Primates
6. In the Crowd-Vertically: Mystical Bodies, Intensity, Transfiguration
7. The Stadium as Ritual of the Crowd
8. "You'll Never Walk Alone": Dortmund, March 13, 2016
