Crowds - by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Anyone who has ever experienced a sporting event in a large stadium knows the energy that emanates from stands full of fans cheering on their teams. Although "the masses" have long held a thoroughly bad reputation in politics and culture, literary critic and avid sports fan Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht finds powerful, as yet unexplored reasons to sing the praises of crowds. Drawing on his experiences as a spectator in the stadiums of South America, Germany, and the US, Gumbrecht presents the stadium as "a ritual of intensity," thereby offering a different lens through which we might capture and even appreciate the dynamic of the masses. In presenting this alternate view, Gumbrecht enters into conversation with thinkers who were more critical of the potential of the masses, such as Gustave Le Bon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Josâe Ortega y Gasset, Elias Canetti, Siegfried Kracauer, T. W. Adorno, or Max Horkheimer. A preface explores college crowds as a uniquely specific phenomenon of American culture. Pairing philosophical rigor with the enthusiasm of a true fan, Gumbrecht writes from the inside and suggests that being part of a crowd opens us up to an experience beyond ourselves"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Anyone who has ever experienced a sporting event in a large stadium knows the energy that emanates from stands full of fans cheering on their teams. Although "the masses" have long held a thoroughly bad reputation in politics and culture, literary critic and avid sports fan Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht finds powerful, as yet unexplored reasons to sing the praises of crowds. Drawing on his experiences as a spectator in the stadiums of South America, Germany, and the US, Gumbrecht presents the stadium as "a ritual of intensity," thereby offering a different lens through which we might capture and even appreciate the dynamic of the masses.</p> <p>In presenting this alternate view, Gumbrecht enters into conversation with thinkers who were more critical of the potential of the masses, such as Gustave Le Bon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, José Ortega y Gasset, Elias Canetti, Siegfried Kracauer, T. W. Adorno, or Max Horkheimer. A preface explores college crowds as a uniquely specific phenomenon of American culture.</p> <p>Pairing philosophical rigor with the enthusiasm of a true fan, Gumbrecht writes from the inside and suggests that being part of a crowd opens us up to an experience beyond ourselves.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Gumbrecht's] new book takes an empathetic look at the elation of fans like me, on nights like the one I experienced eight years ago [at the Pittsurgh Pirates playoff game against the Cincinnati Reds]. In a synoptic history, Gumbrecht explores both fear of crowds, of their violence and unreason--going back, via Freud and José Ortega y Gasset, to Gustave Le Bon's <i>Psychologie des Foules</i> in 1895--and implausible hopes for their political efficacy, from the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Arab Spring.--Keiran Setiya "<i>Times Literary Supplement</i>"<br><br>A wild, entertaining ride from Maradona to Nietzsche, from the Russian Revolution to the Boston Tea Party, from Jesus to Karl Marx.--<i>Neue Zürcher Zeitung</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht</b> is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature Emeritus at Stanford University. His books written in English include <i>In 1926</i> (1998), <i>Production of Presence</i> (Stanford, 2004), <i>In Praise of Athletic Beauty</i> (2006), <i>Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung</i> (Stanford, 2012), <i>After 1945</i> (Stanford, 2013), and <i>Our Broad Present</i> (2014).
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