Research Catalog

Title

Paranoia within reason : a casebook on conspiracy as explanation / George E. Marcus, editor.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors

Marcus, George E.

Description

xiv, 440 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Late editions, cultural studies for the end of the century ; 6

Uniform Title

Late editions ; 6.

Subject

• Conspiracies
• Conspiracies > Case studies
• World politics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction to the Volume: The Paranoid Style Now / George E. Marcus -- 1. Conspiracy Theory's Worlds / Kathleen Stewart -- 2. Paranoid, Critical, Methodical: Dali, Koolhaas, and ... / Jamer Hunt -- 3. The Extraterritoriality of Imre Lakatos: A Conversation with Janos Radvanyi / John Kadvany -- 4. Entangled States: Quantum Teleportation and the "Willies" / Michael Fortun -- 5. The Detection and Attribution of Conspiracies: The Controversy Over Chapter 8 / Myanna Lahsen -- 6. The New Alienists: Healing Shattered Selves at Century's End / Michael F. Brown -- 7. Due Diligence and the Pursuit of Transparency: The Securities and Exchange Commission, 1996 / Kim and Michael Fortun -- 8. The Usual Suspects / Andrea Aureli -- 9. A Toast to Fear: Ethnographic Flashes and Two Quasi-Aphorisms / Luiz E. Soares -- 10. The Return of the Repressed: Conversations with Three Russian Entrepreneurs / Bruce Grant -- 11. Udbomafija and the Rhetoric of Conspiracy / Tatiana Bajuk -- 12. The Judas Kiss of Giulio Andreotti: Italy in Purgatorio / Robin Wagner-Pacifici -- 13. Tactical Thuggery: National Socialism in the East End of London / Douglas R. Holmes -- 14. Lone Gunmen: Legacies of the Gulf War, Illness, and Unseen Enemies / Kim Fortun -- 15. Deus Absconditus: Waco, Conspiracy (Theory), Millennialism, and (the End of) the Twentieth Century / James D. Faubion -- 16. An American Theme Park: Working and Riding Out Paranoia in the Late Twentieth Century / Scott A. Lukas.

ISBN

• 0226504573 (cloth)
• 0226504581 (pbk.)

OCLC

ocm40812754

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries