Elias Canetti
1905 – 1994 · Bulgaria · Literature, Philosophy
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1981
Crowds and Power analysed mass psychology and dictatorship.
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Inherited from1
- Franz Kafka
1883 – 1924 · Literature
Canetti's Kafka study is also his own poetics of power and metamorphosis.
Passed the work to1
- Hannah Arendt
1906 – 1975 · Politics, Philosophy
Crowds and Power and The Origins of Totalitarianism analyse the same mass politics from two sides.
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