Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) was a French social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded theories of national traits, racial superiority, herd behaviour and crowd psychology. His work on crowd psychology became important in the first half of the twentieth century when it was used by media researchers to describe the reactions of subordinate groups to media. He also contributed to on-going debates in physics about the nature of matter and energy. His book The Evolution of Matter was very popular in France. His first great success however was the publication of The Psychology of Peoples (1894), the first work in which he hit upon a popularising style that was to make his reputation secure. His best selling work, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895) followed soon after. Le Bon was one of the great popularisers of theories of the unconscious at a critical moment in the formation of new theories of social action. Sigmund Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1922) was explicitly based on a critique of Le Bon's work.
古斯塔夫・勒庞 Gustave Le Bon(1841-1931) 法国著名社会心理学家。他自1894年始,写下一系列社会心理学著作,以本书最为著名,被 翻译成近二十种语言,至今仍在国际学术界有广泛影响。
这本书的重要性在不同场合被提及的次数实在太多了,以至于我早已将其列为必读书目之一,尽管从买下此书到真正读完它的今天,差不多过去了十年的时间。不过阅读体验没有我想象中那么痛苦——这种预感来自于对法国学者黏稠的论述方式的刻板印象——这本书,总体而言是流畅而清晰...
评分一百多年前的法国学者勒庞是个保守派社会精英,他反对传统的国家主义,反对新兴的集体主义,推崇英美式的自由主义。他生活在法国革命不断的年代里,经历过巴黎公社和法兰西第二帝国等历史时期,亲眼目睹了法国民众在传统的信仰与权威崩塌后,在近乎宗教般的革命激情中,退化...
评分书中的观点总结起来就是:群体是有共同目的的人的集合,群体智力低下,盲目而极端,保守又善变,充满原始的暴力和嗜血的欲望。这些观点我是基本赞同的,有很多例子可以支持这一点,外国有十字军东征、中世纪的宗教狂热,中国有义和团,有几十年间一次又一次的政治运动和阶级迫...
评分按:这是写给同事看的,因为当时她需要了解这本书的内容,而又来不及通读全书。故我重读一遍,做了这个简单的札记。 勒庞的《乌合之众》,“是一部以阅读法国大革命时间为基础的群体行为的社会心理学著作”。罗伯特•墨顿的序“勒庞《乌合之众》的得与失”写得很好,他提...
评分为什么叫乌合之书?比如勒庞老师这本七拼八凑偏见横飞胡乱论证纵笔狂书还攒出了一门“群众心理学”。 这门学问有三大宝贝:一曰泛化(generalisation),拉丁民族就怎么怎么浪漫激进,盎格鲁撒克逊就怎么怎么沉静稳重,法国人就怎么这么爱窝里斗呢?瞧隔壁英吉利半岛现如今还尊...