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Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies

Paperback • 2014 • English

Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies

By Luc Boltanski

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About the book

The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the same period, psychiatry was inventing paranoia, sociology was devising new forms of causality to explain the social lives of individuals and groups and political science was shifting the problematics of paranoia from the psychic to the social realm and seeking to explain historical events in terms of conspiracy t...Show more

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ISBN

9780745664057

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies

Format

Paperback

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