Philosophy
The Crowd · Psychologie des foules
Gustave Le Bon
Translated by Anonymous (1896)
“The age we are about to enter will in truth be the era of crowds.” Le Bon’s study of how people think, feel and believe in a crowd, in French and English.
Start reading → Markdown.md ↓- French: Gustave Le Bon, Psychologie des foules (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1895), Project Gutenberg #24007. Le Bon’s preface has no counterpart in this English edition and is left out.
- English: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896), Project Gutenberg #445. Aligned chapter by chapter, by meaning.