Secrets and conspiracies / / edited by Olli Loukola and Leonidas Donskis.
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...
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| Superior document: | Value inquiry book series ; Volume 372 |
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| 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) |
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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.