Paranoia and modernity
Subtitle: Cervantes to Rousseau
By: John Farrell.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780801444104
Subjects: Civilization, Modern -- Psychological aspects.; Paranoia -- Philosophy.; Paranoia in literature.; Agent (Philosophy); Personality and culture.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Agent and other; title: The responsible knight; title: The knight errant; title: Luther and the devil's world; title: The terrors of reform; title: The science of suspicion; title: The demons of Descartes and Hobbes; title: Pascal and power; title: The art of polite disguise; title: Swift and the satiric absolute; title: A flight from humanity; title: Invisible agents; title: Rousseau's great plot; title: An attempted escape; title: Epilogue : paranoia and postmodernism.