Conviction and the crowd

This essay fragment corresponds to the second half of Gabriel Tarde's 1898 essay ‘Le Public et la Foule’ (‘The Public and the Crowd’). While the first half of the essay was translated by Terry N. Clark in 1969 and gained a wide reputation in the fields of sociology and communication studies, the final segment has remained unavailable to English-language speakers until its publication below. Broadly speaking, ‘The Public and the Crowd’ is a theoretical intervention on the social nature of the crowd and its Other – the public. The portion that follows expands and develops many of the ideas presented in the Clark translation, while also adding a layer of nuance as described in the introductory essay that precedes this text. It consists broadly of three parts: a series of reflections on crowds with ‘positive’ (pro-social) tendencies, an extended discussion of criminality, and concluding remarks that discuss continuities between crowds and publics

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