Reframing the masters of suspicion: Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud
Suspicious explanation, a primer -- Classic suspicion : Marx -- Classic suspicion : Nietzsche -- Classic suspicion : Freud -- Paradigms of suspicion.
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Bloomsbury Academic
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | Critiquing religion: discourse, culture, power
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Marx, Karl 1818-1883
/ Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844-1900
/ Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939
/ Suspicion
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| Further subjects: | B
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)
B Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) B Suspicion B Ricœur, Paul B Hermeneutics B Marx, Karl (1897-1985) |
| Summary: | Suspicious explanation, a primer -- Classic suspicion : Marx -- Classic suspicion : Nietzsche -- Classic suspicion : Freud -- Paradigms of suspicion. "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'"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xi, 248 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-1-350-06517-8 |
