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Secrets and Conspiracies
Series: - Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 372
- Ethical Theory and Practice, Volume: 372
Secrets and conspiracies have always played an important role in human history, and today conspiracy theories have become a rather disconcerting practice for picturing our world and our relations with each other. How seriously are we to take them, then? Are we to completely discard them as political rhetoric, purposeful misinformation, or even individual delusions? Or should we take them as serious, perhaps even scientific theories? This collection purports to provide a sober analysis of the much-debated issues and tries to develop and outline conceptual and theoretical tools to make sense of what secrets and conspiracies truly are.
Olli Loukola, DSocSci (1999), Docent (2001), University of Helsinki, is University Lecturer of Practical Philosophy and Member of Teachers' Academy at that university. He has published extensively on ethics, political philosophy and environmental philosophy.
Leonidas Donskis (1962-2016) was a Lithuanian philosopher, historian of ideas, social analyst, political commentator, and public intellectual. From 2002 he was Professor of Political Science at Vytautas Magnus University, serving from 2005 to 2009 as Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy. From 2009 to 2014 he was a Lithuanian Member of the European Parliament. He authored more than 50 books and 500 articles.
Contributors are Timo Airaksinen, Cătălin Avramescu, David Coady, Leonidas Donskis, Vladimir Fours, Manfred J. Holler, Aki-Mauri Huhtinen, Ginna Husting, Saara Jantunen, Barbara Klose-Ullmann, Olli Loukola, Charles Pigden, Hubert Schleichert, Christopher Stevens, Tõnu Viik.
Leonidas Donskis (1962-2016) was a Lithuanian philosopher, historian of ideas, social analyst, political commentator, and public intellectual. From 2002 he was Professor of Political Science at Vytautas Magnus University, serving from 2005 to 2009 as Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy. From 2009 to 2014 he was a Lithuanian Member of the European Parliament. He authored more than 50 books and 500 articles.
Contributors are Timo Airaksinen, Cătălin Avramescu, David Coady, Leonidas Donskis, Vladimir Fours, Manfred J. Holler, Aki-Mauri Huhtinen, Ginna Husting, Saara Jantunen, Barbara Klose-Ullmann, Olli Loukola, Charles Pigden, Hubert Schleichert, Christopher Stevens, Tõnu Viik.
Foreword
Leonidas Donskis
List of Tables
Introduction
Olli Loukola
part 1
Secrets
1 A Secret Hidden in Plain View Lord Chesterfield’s Theory of Dissimulation
Cătălin Avramescu
2 Pseudo-secrets
Hubert Schleichert
3 The Secret of Ideologies
Tõnu Viik
4 It Couldn’t Happen Here
Olli Loukola and Leonidas Donskis
5 Conspiracy Theories as Fiction Kafka and Sade
Timo Airaksinen
part 2
Conspiracies
6 Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Theorists
David Coady
7 Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom Revisited
Charles Pigden
8 Once More, with Feeling Conspiracy Theories, Contempt, and Affective Governmentality
Ginna Husting
9 Machiavelli’s Conspiracy Games
Manfred J. Holler and Barbara Klose-Ullmann
10 A Conspiracy Theory of Unsustainable Over-consumption The Market and Environmental Collective Action Problems
Christopher Stevens
11 Cunning Strategy in the Cyberspace—The Renaissance of Conspiracy
Saara Jantunen and Aki-Mauri Huhtinen
12 Some Reflections on Conspiracy Rhetoric in Belarusian Political Discourses
Vladimir Fours
Index
Leonidas Donskis
List of Tables
Introduction
Olli Loukola
part 1
Secrets
1 A Secret Hidden in Plain View Lord Chesterfield’s Theory of Dissimulation
Cătălin Avramescu
2 Pseudo-secrets
Hubert Schleichert
3 The Secret of Ideologies
Tõnu Viik
4 It Couldn’t Happen Here
Olli Loukola and Leonidas Donskis
5 Conspiracy Theories as Fiction Kafka and Sade
Timo Airaksinen
part 2
Conspiracies
6 Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Theorists
David Coady
7 Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom Revisited
Charles Pigden
8 Once More, with Feeling Conspiracy Theories, Contempt, and Affective Governmentality
Ginna Husting
9 Machiavelli’s Conspiracy Games
Manfred J. Holler and Barbara Klose-Ullmann
10 A Conspiracy Theory of Unsustainable Over-consumption The Market and Environmental Collective Action Problems
Christopher Stevens
11 Cunning Strategy in the Cyberspace—The Renaissance of Conspiracy
Saara Jantunen and Aki-Mauri Huhtinen
12 Some Reflections on Conspiracy Rhetoric in Belarusian Political Discourses
Vladimir Fours
Index
This book is mainly focused on academic institutions and libraries, researchers and students of political philosophy and social sciences. With its multiple disciplinary approaches, it would also be of interest to specialists of related areas, but also to laymen interested in the topics related to conspiracies and conspiracy theories.