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In this commanding and demanding book, Andrea Brighenti prolongs Elias Canetti's dark reflections on the human condition in brutal times with a wide-ranging study of the elementary forms of power, command and crowds. Canetti is only a pre-text to return to Freud, Durkheim, Tarde and Deleuze to prepare the ground for new forms of collective resistance and individual survival in the twenty-first century. * Frederic Vandenberghe, Professor of Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * This deeply original book offers a most fascinatingaccount of Elias Canetti's relevance for contemporary social theory. Brighenti brilliantly shows that, though Canetti is widely disregarded by social theorists, this is undeserved, as his work offers a fresh perspective on power, resistance, and the social bond. A truly important intervention. * Christian Borch, Professor of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * This book is an original and thought-provoking interpretation of Canetti, and a significant addition to the far too scarce attempts at a theoretical reading of his work. * Johann P. Arnason, Emeritus professor of sociology, La Trobe University, Australia *

In this commanding and demanding book, Andrea Brighenti prolongs Elias Canetti's dark reflections on the human condition in brutal times with a wide-ranging study of the elementary forms of power, command and crowds. Canetti is only a pre-text to return to Freud, Durkheim, Tarde and Deleuze to prepare the ground for new forms of collective resistance and individual survival in the twenty-first century. * Frederic Vandenberghe, Professor of Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil *

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Andrea Mubi Brighenti is Professor of Social Theory and Space & Culture at the Department of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy. He is co-author of Animated Lands: Studies in Territoriology (2020), with Mattias Kärrholm, and author of The Ambiguous Multiplicities (2014) and Visibility in Social Theory and Social Research (2010).

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