Paranoia and modernity : Cervantes to Rousseau /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farrell, John, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
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Table of 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.