L’enigma della sfinge. L’immaginario ottocentesco della folla: linee di lettura

Damiano Palano*

*Autore corrispondente per questo lavoro

Risultato della ricerca: Contributo in rivistaArticolo in rivista

Abstract

This article examines the sequences of the ‘reinvention’ of the crowd carried out during the Nineteenth century (and especially in the last three decades of the century) by social sciences, popular fiction, reflections on social pathologies and historical rereadings of the French Revolution. According to the author, the «crowd» represented, in the fin de siècle imaginary, much more than simply a new name of multitude, mob, or populace. The reflections on the crowd (and on crowd psychology) in fact contributed to the construction of a largely new image. In the «crowd» were first “condensedµ all the nightmares of late Nineteenth century, but, at the same time, thanks to this new representation, the roots of (social and political) conflict and the tools to tame it were placed in a new «biopolitical» dimension.
Titolo tradotto del contributo[Autom. eng. transl.] The enigma of the sphinx. The nineteenth-century imagery of the crowd: lines of interpretation
Lingua originaleItalian
pagine (da-a)443-458
Numero di pagine16
RivistaFilosofia Politica
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2020

Keywords

  • Crowd
  • Folla
  • Mass
  • Massa

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