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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Loukola, Olli, editor.

Donskis, Leonidas, editor.

Series:

Value inquiry book series ; Volume 372.

Value inquiry book series ; Volume 372

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conspiracy theories.

Conspiracies--Political aspects.

Conspiracies.

Conspiracies--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Loukola, Olli Secrets and Conspiracies

ISBN:

90-04-49972-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004499720 DOI