The Mob Mentality (Annotated)

In The Mob Mentality, Gustave Le Bon examines how individuals, when absorbed into a crowd, undergo a transformation of judgment, emotion, and moral responsibility. The book's central argument—that crowds are governed less by reason than by suggestion, contagion, and collective imagination—places it at the foundation of modern social psychology. Written in a lucid, aphoristic, and sometimes polemic...