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Reframing the masters of suspicion : Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud
- Title
- Reframing the masters of suspicion : Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud / Andrew Dole.
- Author
- Dole, Andrew, 1966-
- Publication
- London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- xi, 148 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Dole provides a thought-provoking critique for critical religious studies scholars who draw on the work of the 'masters of suspicion', as well as for anyone working in critical theory more broadly. This book revisits Paul Ricoeur's well-known classification of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud as the 'masters of suspicion'. 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. In place of Ricoeur's 'hermeneutics of suspicion' Dole presents the method of 'suspicious explanation', which claims the existence of 'hidden' phenomena that are bad in some recognizable way, and which each of the 'masters' practiced in his own way. 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, such that 'if they are true they are importantly true, and their truth or falsity can be very difficult to ascertain'"--
- Series Statement
- Critiquing religion : discourse, culture, power
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-246) and index.
- Contents
- Suspicious explanation, a primer -- Classic suspicion : Marx -- Classic suspicion : Nietzsche -- Classic suspicion : Freud -- Paradigms of suspicion.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2831
- ISBN
- 9781350065178
- 135006517X
- 9781350065185 (epdf) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781350065192 (eBook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018030412
- OCLC
- 1089742642
- Author
- Dole, Andrew, 1966- author.
- Title
- Reframing the masters of suspicion : Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud / Andrew Dole.
- Publisher
- London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Critiquing religion : discourse, culture, power
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-246) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-2831