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Paranoia within reason : a casebook on conspiracy as explanation

Author:George E. Marcus

Summary:This text examines conspiracy theories and tackles paranoia as a style of debate within science, psychotherapy, and popular entertainment. A conspiracy theory emerges as a way to address the inadequacies of rational expertise and organization in the face of the changes that undermine them.

Print Book, English, c1999

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, c1999

Series:

Late editions, 6

Genre:Trivia and miscellanea

Physical Description:xiv, 440 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780226504575, 9780226504582, 0226504573, 0226504581

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1170295722

Subjects:

Conspiracies Case studies

Conspiracy theories

Conspiration Études de cas

Histoire Miscellanées

History Miscellanea

Paranoia Case studies

Paranoïa Études de cas

Théories du complot

Trivia and miscellanea