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100	1		_aLe Bon, Gustave, _d1841-1931
245	1	2	_aL'évolution actuelle du monde: illusions et réalités
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aBibliothèque de philosophie scientifique
500			_aRelease date is 2025-06-11
505	0		_aPhysionomie actuelle du monde -- Les forces qui mènent le monde -- Les illusions sur le problème de la sécurite -- Les guerres modernes, leurs causes et leurs conséquences -- Les forces politiques nouvelles -- Nécessités déterminant les institutions politiques. Pourquoi l'Europe marche vers la dictature -- Les illusions sur l'origine et la répartition des richesses -- La situation financière du monde -- Rôle de la monnai dans l'évolution économique du monde -- Rôle de l'idéal dans la vie des peuples; La religion socialiste.
508			_aLaurent Vogel (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library)
520			_a"L'évolution actuelle du monde: illusions et réalités" by Gustave Le Bon is a socio-political and psychological treatise written in the early 20th century. It analyzes how modern civilization is being reshaped by the clash of material innovations (steam, electricity, coal, oil) and immaterial forces (beliefs, mysticism, crowd psychology), and it probes the illusions surrounding peace, security, disarmament, alliances, and arbitration. The work argues that destructive collective passions, revolutionary faiths, and ancestral legacies threaten Europe even as America rises, and that only a hard-headed grasp of collective psychology and economic realities can temper conflict. The opening of this treatise sketches a world poised between an old order and a new one, driven by creative, conservative, and destructive forces: Europe is fractured by border rivalries and party strife, dictatorships emerge, Britain is shaken by strikes and imperial strain, Russia regresses, the East is in turmoil, while America amasses wealth and influence. Le Bon warns that science has multiplied destructive means, that the League of Nations and legalistic arbitration cannot overcome clashing mentalities, and that alliances endure only while interests align—economic arrangements may preserve peace better than pacts. He stresses that collective forces are irrational, future wars may be internal and ideological, and that syndicalism and socialism function as modern religions responding to a persistent human need for faith. Early chapters contrast material power (especially coal and oil) with immaterial power (mysticism and belief), illustrate enduring credulity—even among eminent scientists—with spiritist and pseudo-scientific episodes, and lay out laws for how beliefs spread. He then posits the “soul of the race,” the commanding will of the dead shaping the living, to explain national continuity and the instability of mixed peoples, using France’s oscillations and other historical cases. Finally, he attributes major political disasters to errors of psychology, notes how personalities transform under revolutionary conditions, and critiques pacifist, disarmament, alliance, and arbitration illusions, concluding that only unity and credible defense can provide real security. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cParis: Ernest Flammarion, 1927
653			_aSocialism
653			_aPolitical science
653			_aSocial history
653			_aEconomic history -- 1918-1945
830		0	_aBibliothèque de philosophie scientifique
856	4		_uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b5544399
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76269
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