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Paranoia and modernity : Cervantes to Rousseau
- Title
- Paranoia and modernity : Cervantes to Rousseau / John Farrell.
- Author
- Farrell, John, 1957-
- Publication
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
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Details
- Description
- 341 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Agent and other -- The responsible knight -- The knight errant -- Luther and the devil's world -- The terrors of reform -- The science of suspicion -- The demons of Descartes and Hobbes -- Pascal and power -- The art of polite disguise -- Swift and the satiric absolute -- A flight from humanity -- Invisible agents -- Rousseau's great plot -- An attempted escape -- Epilogue : paranoia and postmodernism.
- ISBN
- 0801444101
- 9780801444104
- 9780801474064
- 080147406X
- LCCN
- 2005017717
- 9780801444104
- OCLC
- ocm60743159
- 60743159
- SCSB-9607155
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library