Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau 0801444101, 9780801444104
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part One: The Paranoid Temptation
1. Agent and Other 13
2. The Responsible Knight 23
3. The Knight Errant 33
Part Two: The Alienation of Agency
4. Luther and the Devil's World 57
5. The Terrors of Reform 81
6. The Science of Suspicion 91
7. The Demons of Descartes and Hobbes 112
Part Three: Unmaskings
8. Pascal and Power 145
9. The Art of Polite Disguise 158
10. Swift and the Satiric Absolute 174
11. A Flight from Humanity 195
Part Four: Regimes of Nature
12. Invisible Agents 219
13. Rousseau's Great Plot 251
14. An Attempted Escape 279
Epilogue: Paranoia and Postmodernism 309
Index 329
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