The madness that makes history
Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
ISBN: 978-1-138-67366-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
Focusing on the contagious aspects of paranoia and its infectious, self-replicating dynamics, Zoja takes such diverse examples as Ajax and George W. Bush, Cain and the American Holocaust, Hitler, Stalin and Othello to illustrate his argument. He reconstructs the emblematic arguments that paranoia has promoted in Western history and examines how the power of the modern media and mass communication has affected how it spreads. Paranoia clearly examines how leaders lose control of their influence, how the collective unconscious acquires an autonomous life and how seductive its effects can be – more so than any political, religious or ideological discourse.
This gripping study will be essential reading for depth and analytical psychologists, and academics and students of history, cultural studies, psychology, classical studies, literary studies, anthropology and sociology.
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Postgraduate and Professional
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Weitere Infos & Material
The madness of Ajax. 1. What is paranoia? Individual (clinical) paranoia. 2. The beginnings: myth and history. 3. European nationalism: from cultural renaissance to paranoia. 4. Naive persecutors. 5. Darkness over Europe. 6. Freud, Keynes and the bamboozled man. 7. Siegfried. 8. The granite foundation and the hour of idiocy. 9. The man of steel and the final product. 10. Fire that feeds fire. 11. Further and further west. 12. A plan for the twenty-first century? 13. Inconclusive thoughts. Iago’s whisper. Bibliography. Index.