Secrets and conspiracies / / edited by Olli Loukola and Leonidas Donskis.

• Superior document: Value inquiry book series ; Volume 372
• TeilnehmendeR: Loukola, Olli,; Donskis, Leonidas,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series ; Volume 372.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 pages)

Secrets and conspiracies have always played an important role in human history, and today conspiracy theories have become a rather disconcerting practice for picturing our world and our relations with each other. How seriously are we to take them, then? Are we to completely discard them as political rhetoric, purposeful misinformation, or even individual delusions? Or should we take them as serious, perhaps even scientific theories? This collection purports to provide a sober analysis of the much-debated issues and tries to develop and outline conceptual and theoretical tools to make sense of what secrets and conspiracies truly are.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Leonidas Donskis -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Olli Loukola -- part 1 -- Secrets -- 1 A Secret Hidden in Plain View Lord Chesterfield's Theory of Dissimulation -- Cătălin Avramescu -- 2 Pseudo-secrets -- Hubert Schleichert -- 3 The Secret of Ideologies -- Tõnu Viik -- 4 It Couldn't Happen Here -- Olli Loukola and Leonidas Donskis -- 5 Conspiracy Theories as Fiction Kafka and Sade -- Timo Airaksinen -- part 2 -- Conspiracies -- 6 Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Theorists -- David Coady -- 7 Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom Revisited -- Charles Pigden -- 8 Once More, with Feeling Conspiracy Theories, Contempt, and Affective Governmentality -- Ginna Husting -- 9 Machiavelli's Conspiracy Games -- Manfred J. Holler and Barbara Klose-Ullmann -- 10 A Conspiracy Theory of Unsustainable Over-consumption The Market and Environmental Collective Action Problems -- Christopher Stevens -- 11 Cunning Strategy in the Cyberspace-The Renaissance of Conspiracy -- Saara Jantunen and Aki-Mauri Huhtinen -- 12 Some Reflections on Conspiracy Rhetoric in Belarusian Political Discourses -- Vladimir Fours -- Index.