Chelovek ubezhdennyy. Lichnost', vlast' i massovye dvizheniya

Kniga "Chelovek ubezhdennyy. Lichnost', vlast' i massovye dvizheniya" (The True Believer. Thoughts on The Nature of Mass Movements) prinesla Eriku Hofferu vsemirnuyu slavu: napisannoe v 1951 g., issledovanie priznannogo klassika obschestvennoy mysli posvyascheno prirode i soderzhaniyu massovyh dvizheniy chelovechestva - bud' to partii, religioznye techeniya, nacional'nye ili social'nye revolyucii. Chem ob'yasnit' prityagatel'nost' dlya mass takih neodnoznachnyh v mirovoy istorii i duhovnoy kul'ture figur, kak Hristos, Budda, Magomet, Gitler, Stalin? Vyyavlyaya zakonomernosti, avtor daet original'nye, poroy paradoksal'nye otvety. Hoffer sniskal reputaciyu sovremennogo Makiavelli, odnako sam on schital sebya prodolzhatelem tradiciy Montenya, Paskalya i Dostoevskogo. Kak i Nicshe, on - myslitel' neozhidannyh (i ne vsegda priyatnyh) istin.