Secrets and Conspiracies (Value Inquiry Book Series / Ethical Theory and Practice)

Loukola, Olli (EDT)/ Donskis, Leonidas (EDT)

Brill（2022/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 258 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004499713
• DDC分類 001.98

Full Description

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