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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gupta, Dipak K. Path to collective madness. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001 (OCoLC)651917712 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dipak K Gupta |
| ISBN: | 0275972208 9780275972202 0275972216 9780275972219 |
| OCLC Number: | 44885385 |
| Description: | xii, 282 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Setting the Stage -- "The Children Did Not Cry": The Face of Collective Madness -- At the Great Divide of Identity: Individual and Collective -- The Confusions of a Singular Worldview -- Path to Collective Madness -- Homo Collectivus: The Social Man -- The Slippery Slope: From Identity to Madness -- Madness or Not: The Ends of the Spectrum -- In Search of Policy -- Where There's a Will ... : Can Anything Be Done? -- Collective Madness: Looking into the Future. |
| Responsibility: | Dipak K. Gupta. |
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?[T]he book's most important contribution is its powerful presentation of how imperative and profitable it is to study collective identities and violence from new, interdisciplinary angles....[G]upta wrote with striking clairvoyance before 11 September: "judging from our past and based on current trends, it is highly probable that in the coming decades in many parts on the world, people will respond to the siren song of sociopaths like Jim Jones or demagogues like Radovan Karadzic, or Adolf Hitler. We can only hope that when it happens, the rest of us will have the will and the wisdom to deal with them properly."?-Journal of Socio-Economics Read more...
