According to the collective psychology of the late nineteenth-century, crowds are a regression to barbarism. In fact, irrational, passioned, sometimes criminal crowds are the alter ego of democratic people; a side left in dark in representation of civil democracies, based on rational, dispassioned choice. The paper aims to look at those theories on crowd's barbarism, taking into account the inability of modern democracies to understand barbaric acts arising within them.

Barbarie dentro: il popolo "furioso" nella psicologia collettiva di fine Ottocento

Riccio M
2018

Abstract

According to the collective psychology of the late nineteenth-century, crowds are a regression to barbarism. In fact, irrational, passioned, sometimes criminal crowds are the alter ego of democratic people; a side left in dark in representation of civil democracies, based on rational, dispassioned choice. The paper aims to look at those theories on crowd's barbarism, taking into account the inability of modern democracies to understand barbaric acts arising within them.
2018
barbarism
crowd
psychology
passions
democracy
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