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Like the McCarthy era of the 1950s, there is a strong current of paranoid social thought at the end of the 20th century. Conspiracy theories abound, not only in extremist ideologies and groups, but in commerce, science, and economics-arenas where a paranoid style is least expected. A curiosity about paranoia at its most reasonable is at the root of this volume. Some pieces develop conversations that reveal the post-Cold War situations of countries such as Italy, Russia, Slovenia, and the United States where conspiratorial explanations of national dramas seem to make sense. Other pieces tackle paranoia as a style of debate in such diverse realms as science, psychotherapy, and popular entertainment, where conspiracy theories emerge as a compelling way to address the inadequacies of rational expertise and organization in the face of immense changes that undermine them.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Paranoia within Reason
• Subtitle: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation
• Author: George E. Marcus
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 454
• EAN: 9780226504575
• ID: 04547208
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 826 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 174 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. February 1999

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