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  • JFK assassination or how not to be paranoid in the enlightened age of conspiracies
    Šterk, Karmen
    In the article, we compare the interpretational paradigms of conspiratorial, magical and scientific reasoning. We conclusively demonstrate that rationalism, scientific progress and the postmodern ... condition did nothing to prevent people from mystical, irrational and paranoid reasoning, which is embodied in conspiratorial thought. To the contrary, it is our thesis that the conspiratorial ideation is, in the final analysis, actually a full blown realization of the ideals of the scientific Enlightenment, one of the few still ordered, uniform and internally coherent ways of thinking in disenchanted societies of the West. There exists a greatly generalized paranoid attitude that, as we will show, can contextualize and/or elucidate the tendency of an ever rising conspiratorial ideation.
    Source: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja. - ISSN 0040-3598 (Letn. 50, št. 5/6, sep.-dec. 2013, str. 847-862, 909)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2013
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 32432989

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    http://dk.fdv.uni-lj.si/db/pdfs/TiP2013_5-6_Sterk1.pdf
    Repository of the University of Ljubljana – RUL

source: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja. - ISSN 0040-3598 (Letn. 50, št. 5/6, sep.-dec. 2013, str. 847-862, 909)

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