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Reframing the Masters of Suspicion - Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud (Paperback)
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Reframing the Masters of Suspicion - Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud (Paperback)
Series: Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power
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This book revisits Paul Ricoeur's classification of Karl Marx,
Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud as the "masters of
suspicion", and provides a thought-provoking critique for critical
religious studies scholars, as well as anyone working in critical
theory more broadly. Whereas Ricoeur saw suspicion as a mode of
interpretation, Andrew Dole argues that the method common to his
"masters" is better understood as a mode of explanation. Dole
replaces Ricoeur's hermeneutics of suspicion with suspicious
explanation, which claims the existence of hidden phenomena that
are bad in some recognizable way. Each of the masters, Dole argues,
offered a distinct kind of suspicious explanation. Reconstructing
Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud in this way brings their work into
conversation with conspiracy theories, which are themselves a type
of suspicious explanation. Dole argues that conspiracy theories and
other types of suspicious explanation are "cognitively ensnaring",
to borrow a term from Pascal Boyer. If they are true they are
importantly true, but their truth or falsity can be very difficult
to ascertain.
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