"
This book analogizes questions to a knife, cutting both between two possibilities and into the flesh of an interrogated victim. It famously describes how the postures of the audience and the orchestra contribute to the authoritative aura of an orchestral conductor. One chapter of this book analyzes how an isolated command caused the Xhosa to destroy almost their entire food supply after encountering the British. Another chapter of this book links the (*) destructive impulse to "'hardening exercises' of the hands and fingers" in monkeys, connecting the physiology of the hand to the act of "seizing and...eating." This book argues that the "survivor" mentality led to the paranoia of people African kings, the judge Daniel Schreber, and Adolf Hitler. Earlier on, it gives a taxonomy of kinds of "pack." For 10 points, name this treatise on the psychology of the ruler and the ruled, by Elias Canetti.
This book analogizes questions to a knife, cutting both between two possibilities and into the flesh of an interrogated victim.
Crowds and Power [or Masse und Macht]