Paranoia and Modernity : : Cervantes to Rousseau / / John C. Farrell.
"Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer. Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man, Ibsen's Masterbuilder Solness, Strindberg's Captain (in The F...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: The Paranoid Temptation
- 1. Agent and Other
- 2. The Responsible Knight
- 3. The Knight Errant
- Part Two: The Alienation of Agency
- 4. Luther and the Devil's World
- 5. The Terrors of Reform
- 6. The Science of Suspicion
- 7. The Demons of Descartes and Hobbes
- Part Three: Unmaskings
- 8. Pascal and Power
- 9. The Art of Polite Disguise
- 10. Swift and the Satiric Absolute
- 11. A Flight from Humanity
- Part Four: Regimes of Nature
- 12. Invisible Agents
- 13. Rousseau's Great Plot
- 14. An Attempted Escape
- Epilogue: Paranoia and Postmodernism
- Index