Paranoia within Reason

A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation

By: George E. Marcus (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 March 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Like the McCarthy era of the 1950s, there is a strong current of paranoid social thought as the end of the century approaches. 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. Like all of the volumes in the Late Edition series, "Paranoia Within Reason" offers a provocative challenge to our ways of understanding the ongoing watershed changes that face us.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge Conspiracy Theories History General & World History Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Cultural Studies Archaeology

Preface: A Reintroduction to the Series Introduction to the Volume: The Paranoid Style Now
Conspiracy Theory's Worlds Kathleen Stewart
Paranoid, Critical, Methodical: Dali, Koolhaas, and . . . Jamer Hunt I. Paranoia within Reason
The Extraterritoriality of Imre Lakatos: A Conversation with
Entangled States: Quantum Teleportation and the "Willies"
The Detection and Attribution of Conspiracies: The Controversy Over Chapter 8
The New Alienists: Healing Shattered Selves at Century's End
Due Diligence and the Pursuit of Transparency: The Securities and Exchange Commission, 1996 Kim and Michael Fortun II. Paranoid Histories
The Usual Suspects
A Toast to Fear: Ethnographic Flashes and Two Quasi-Aphorisms
The Return of the Repressed: Conversations with Three Russian Entrepreneurs
Udbomafija and the Rhetoric of Conspiracy Tatiana Bajuk III. Paranoid Presents
The Judas Kiss of Giulio Andreotti: Italy in Purgatorio
Tactical Thuggery: National Socialism in the East End of London Douglas R. Holmes
Lone Gunmen: Legacies of the Gulf War, Illness, and Unseen Enemies Kim Fortun
Deus Absconditus: Waco, Conspiracy (Theory), Millennialism, and (the End of) the Twentieth Century
An American Theme Park: Working and Riding Out Paranoia in the Late Twentieth Century Scott
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