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Paranoia and Modernity - Cervantes to Rousseau (Hardcover)
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Paranoia and Modernity - Cervantes to Rousseau (Hardcover)
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Paranoia, suspicion, and control have preoccupied key Western
intellectuals since the sixteenth century. Paranoia is a dominant
concern in modern literature, and its peculiar constellation of
symptoms - grandiosity, suspicion, unfounded hostility, delusions
of persecution and conspiracy - are nearly obligatory psychological
components of the modern hero. How did paranoia come to the center
of modern moral and intellectual consciousness? In Paranoia and
Modernity, John Farrell brings literary criticism, psychology, and
intellectual history to the attempt at an answer. He demonstrates
the connection between paranoia and the long history of struggles
over the question of agency - the extent to which we are free to
act and responsible for our actions. He addresses a wide range of
major authors from the late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century,
among them Luther, Bacon, Cervantes, Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, La
Rochefoucauld, Swift, and Rousseau.
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