The true believer : thoughts on the nature of mass movements / by Eric Hoffer.

By: Hoffer, EricMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New York : Perennial Classics, 2002Description: viii, 177 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 0060505915(pbk)Subject(s): Social groups | Social psychology | Fanaticism | Social participationDDC classification: 303.48
Contents:
PART 1: THE APPEAL OF ,ASS MOVEMENT -> the desire for change -> the desire for substitutes -> the interchangeability of mass movements PART 2: THE POTENTIAL CONVERTS -> the role of the Understanables in Human affairs -> the poor -> misfits -> the inordinately selfish -> the ambitious facing unlimited -> minorities -> the bored -> the sinners PART 3: UNITED ACTION AND SELF-SACRIFICE -> preface -> factors promoting self sacrifice -> unifying agents PART 4: BEGINNING AND END -> men of words -> the fanatics -> the practical men of action -> good and bad mass movements
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Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1951.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-177).

PART 1: THE APPEAL OF ,ASS MOVEMENT

-> the desire for change
-> the desire for substitutes
-> the interchangeability of mass movements

PART 2: THE POTENTIAL CONVERTS

-> the role of the Understanables in Human affairs
-> the poor
-> misfits
-> the inordinately selfish
-> the ambitious facing unlimited
-> minorities
-> the bored
-> the sinners

PART 3: UNITED ACTION AND SELF-SACRIFICE

-> preface
-> factors promoting self sacrifice
-> unifying agents

PART 4: BEGINNING AND END

-> men of words
-> the fanatics
-> the practical men of action
-> good and bad mass movements

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