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Author : Jason M. Wirth
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791486603
Puts Schelling in conversation with twentieth-century continental philosophy.
Author : Thomas Ligotti
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780525504917
In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. It may be stated thus: Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world." His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it on his audience, causing them to grapple with the brutal reality that they are living a meaningless nightmare, and anyone who feels otherwise is simply acting out an optimistic fallacy. At once a guidebook to pessimistic thought and a relentless critique of humanity's employment of self-deception to cope with the pervasive suffering of their existence, The Conspiracy against the Human Race may just convince readers that there is more than a measure of truth in the despairing yet unexpectedly liberating negativity that is widely considered a hallmark of Ligotti's work.
Author : Lee Weiner
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781948742863
A memoir of a life in activism by one of the original defendants in the Trial of the Chicago 7, subject of the 2020 Oscar-nominated Aaron Sorkin film of the same name. In March 1969, eight young men were indicted by the federal
Author : Barrie Penrose,Simon Freeman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89059073528
Traces the life of Blunt, art historian and Russian spy, explains how he became involved in espionage and discusses his relationship to Kim Philby.
Author : Quassim Cassam
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509535842
9/11 was an inside job. The Holocaust is a myth promoted to serve Jewish interests. The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were a false flag operation. Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese government. These are all conspiracy theories. A glance online or at bestseller lists reveals how popular some of them are. Even if there is plenty of evidence to disprove them, people persist in propagating them. Why? Philosopher Quassim Cassam explains how conspiracy theories are different from ordinary theories about conspiracies. He argues that conspiracy theories are forms of propaganda and their function is to promote a political agenda. Although conspiracy theories are sometimes defended on the grounds that they uncover evidence of bad behaviour by political leaders, they do much more harm than good, with some resulting in the deaths of large numbers of people. There can be no clearer indication that something has gone wrong with our intellectual and political culture than the fact that conspiracy theories have become mainstream. When they are dangerous, we cannot afford to ignore them. At the same time, refuting them by rational argument is difficult because conspiracy theorists discount or reject evidence that disproves their theories. As conspiracy theories are so often smokescreens for political ends, we need to come up with political as well as intellectual responses if we are to have any hope of defeating them.
Author : M R. X. Dentith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781003859055
This book presents state of the art philosophical work on conspiracy theory research that brings in sharp focus on central and important insights concerning the supposed irrationality of conspiracy theory and conspiracy theory belief, while also proposing several novel solutions to long standing issues in the broader academic debate on these things called ‘conspiracy theories’. It features a critical history of conspiracy theory theory, emphasising the role of the ‘first generation’ of philosophers in conspiracy theory research. This book also includes discussions of a range of key issues such as: What counts as conspiracy theory? Who counts as a conspiracy theorist? How are these terms variously understood by academics and the wider public, and Are conspiracy theories automatically suspect, and is it ever reasonable to be a conspiracy theorist? The book then builds upon that work by looking at how people’s political views affect both the conspiracy theories they believe and their beliefs about conspiracy theories; how we might defend conspiracy theorising without endorsing mad, bad or dangerous conspiracy theories; and contains several proposals for unifying conspiracy theory research under one theoretical framework: particularism. This volume will be a key resource for philosophers and social scientists interested in recent work on the philosophy of conspiracy theory theory and its implications for conspiracy theory research. It will also appeal to members of the public, who want to know what, if anything, is wrong with these things called “conspiracy theories”. It was originally published as a special issue of Social Epistemology.
Author : David Neiwert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781633886278
A revealing trip down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories -their appeal, who believes them, how they spread -with an eye to helping people deal with the alt-right conspiracists in their own lives.Conspiracy theories are killing us. Once confined to the fringes of society, this worldview now has adherents numbering in the millions -extending right into the White House. This disturbing look at this alt-right threat to our democratic institutions offers guidance for counteracting the personal toll this destructive mindset can have on relationships and families.Author David Neiwert -an investigative journalist who has studied the radical right for decades -examines the growing appeal of conspiracy theories and the kind of personalities that are attracted to such paranoid, sociopathic messages. He explains how alt-right leaders are able to get such firm holds on the imaginations of their followers and chronicles the destruction caused by the movement's most virulent believers.Colloquially, this recruitment to alt-right ideologies is called "getting red-pilled" -a metaphor for when believers of conspiracy theories become convinced that their alternate universe is real. Uniquely, and optimistically, Neiwert provides a "blue pill toolkit" for those who are dealing with conspiracy theorists in their own lives, including strategies drawn from people who counsel former far-right extremists who have renounced their former beliefs.
Author : Thom Burnett,Alex Games
Publisher : Red Wheel Weiser
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609258863
The world is a mess. It’s constantly at war, things cost too much, and the average person struggles to survive against powers they can barely see, let alone control. It appears so at odds with common sense, in fact, that it begs a fundamental question: Who runs the world? This book looks at the conspiracies in everyday life, both hidden and not-so-hidden. It examines actual people, businesses, social networks, corporate alliances, and the dark forces of conspiracy and secret history that hold them together. The conclusions reached may shock and scandalize some people—especially those who fervently believe in democracy—but will fascinate everyone.
Author : Martha F. Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216065210
This book offers a thoughtful analysis of how and why conspiracy thinking has become a popular mode of political discourse in the United States. How did conspiracy thinking become such a significant and surprisingly widely accepted form of political thinking in the United States? What compels people to respond to devastating, unpredictable events—terrorist acts, wars, natural disasters, economic upheavals—with the conviction that nothing is a coincidence, nothing is as it seems, and everything is connected? Conspiracy Rising: Conspiracy Thinking and American Public Life argues that while outlandish paranoid theories themselves may seem nonsensical, the thread of conspiracy thinking throughout American history is a both a byproduct of our democratic form of government and a very real threat to it. From the Illuminati, the Knights Templar, and the Freemasons to the government hiding aliens and faking the moon landing; from the New World Order to the Obama "Birthers," the book explores the enduring popularity of a number of American conspiracy theories, showing how the conspiracy hysteria that may provoke disdain and apathy in the general public, can become a source of dangerous extremism.
Author : Jan-Willem van Prooijen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315525396
Who believes in conspiracy theories, and why are some people more susceptible to them than others? What are the consequences of such beliefs? Has a conspiracy theory ever turned out to be true? The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories debunks the myth that conspiracy theories are a modern phenomenon, exploring their broad social contexts, from politics to the workplace. The book explains why some people are more susceptible to these beliefs than others and how they are produced by recognizable and predictable psychological processes. Featuring examples such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks and climate change, The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories shows us that while such beliefs are not always irrational and are not a pathological trait, they can be harmful to individuals and society.
Author : Ryan Holiday
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780735217652
An NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018! A Sunday Times of London Pick of the Paperbacks A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--the book the New York Times called "one helluva page-turner" and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as "riveting...an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic read." Pick up the book everyone is talking about. In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. Thiel's sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn't consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private. This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy and with Nick Denton, Gawker's CEO and founder, out of a job. Only later would the world learn that Gawker's demise was not incidental--it had been masterminded by Thiel. For years, Thiel had searched endlessly for a solution to what he'd come to call the "Gawker Problem." When an unmarked envelope delivered an illegally recorded sex tape of Hogan with his best friend's wife, Gawker had seen the chance for millions of pageviews and to say the things that others were afraid to say. Thiel saw their publication of the tape as the opportunity he was looking for. He would come to pit Hogan against Gawker in a multi-year proxy war through the Florida legal system, while Gawker remained confidently convinced they would prevail as they had over so many other lawsuit--until it was too late. The verdict would stun the world and so would Peter's ultimate unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. Why had he done this? How had no one discovered it? What would this mean--for the First Amendment? For privacy? For culture? In Holiday's masterful telling of this nearly unbelievable conspiracy, informed by interviews with all the key players, this case transcends the narrative of how one billionaire took down a media empire or the current state of the free press. It's a study in power, strategy, and one of the most wildly ambitious--and successful--secret plots in recent memory. Some will cheer Gawker's destruction and others will lament it, but after reading these pages--and seeing the access the author was given--no one will deny that there is something ruthless and brilliant about Peter Thiel's shocking attempt to shake up the world.
Author : Anna Merlan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473553613
_______ ‘Timely and troubling’ Evening Standard ‘A necessary book’ David Aaronovitch ‘Frequently jaw-dropping’ Huffington Post From UFOs to the New World Order, the inside story of how conspiracy theories won over America. In November 2017, a serial climate change denier and anti-vaxxer was elected President of the United States. The rise of Donald Trump marked the beginning of a new American epoch: the age of the conspiracy theorist. Now, Anna Merlan goes undercover in America’s sprawling network of conspiracy theorists and uncovers their secrets. She meets the UFOlogist who claims to have travelled to Mars with a young Barack Obama. She chats with the ‘pizzagate’ truthers who think Washington D.C.’s favourite pizzeria is run by a satanic paedophile ring. And she bumps into Alex Jones, the YouTube impresario who thinks the state is using chemical warfare to turn the population gay – and who happens to be on first-name terms with the leader of the free world. Merlan reveals a world of innuendo and propaganda lying just beneath the surface of US culture. It might just help explain the political turmoil of our time. _______ ‘Through exhaustive research, personal interviews, and a critical yet at times appropriately empathetic approach, writer Anna Merlan has written a captivating book that illuminates the landscape of conspiracy theories.’ New York Magazine ‘An entertaining taxonomy of toxic ideas’ Herald ‘A rock-steady narrator with a ready command of history, nerves of steel, and incisive social insights . . . We need a thousand of her, or a million.’ The Nation
Author : Art Jetthree
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781984575562
E.O.L. (End of Life) is the first book in the Clear Conspiracy trilogy. It introduces the story of Jay, a talented and uniquely gifted hospice social worker who becomes an unwitting player and victim in a deadly conspiracy of epidemic proportions. A battlefield centered in future New York City pits a determined few against organized, ruthless, powerful individuals and public institutions willing to slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocent people in an all-out murder spree. Jay is the only one who eventually realizes that entities not of this earth are the true enemy. The victor will create a pattern of new beginnings for American and global society.
Author : Brian Hunter
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798320060545
FOR ADULTS AND TEENS OF ALL AGES AND BELIEFS! The Conspiracy is Book #33 of the epic book series, Living A Meaningful Life. The storylines of The Conspiracy are interrelated with those in Books 1 - 32 of the series, so a reader might consider reading the prior books first, although The Conspiracy can be enjoyed on its own. The Conspiracy is the next step in the journey of Living A Meaningful Life. Intrigue, rumors, and multiple conspiracies run rampant. This is the installment where your mind will be twisted into knots as you question your perceptions of what you thought was going on, and who you thought everyone was. For those new to the series, Books #1 and #2, The Bench and The Farm, introduce us to the initial key characters. These installments act as the basic foundation from which the storylines are built. They feature the first main character as a child, and thus include some "juvenile" and "coming of age" storylines. Book 3, The Lake, is when some of the real action begins. The main character is a more mature teenager. Book 4, The Favor, is the first pivotal installment of the series. The main character is a young adult, and we get a better view of what the series is really about. We also get introduced to the eventual star of the series, Rudy, who becomes the iconic character whom everyone talks about when discussing this book series. After Book #4, the reader, the series, and the storylines, are off and running. The reader will experience an epic journey which they could have never imagined. The characters and storylines become more sophisticated, and the series in general just gets better and better. The Living A Meaningful Life book series is a "family saga" series, written as an autobiography by the narrator. The journey takes us through childhood, into later adulthood, and spans multiple generations, and includes extended family. The main premise involves a huge charity organization that becomes a family dynasty. Those who control the charity have proven themselves as having the highest level of integrity, compassion, and deep moral character. The charity is used to change everyone's lives around them, including their entire community. Main themes of the series include mentoring between adults and kids of all ages, father and son, coming of age, ethical behavior, creating your own "soul family," grieving losses, loving each other, supporting those in need, achieving great success, and making incredible dreams come true. This is not just a book series for idle amusement. This is a book series that can change your life in dramatic and profound ways. The series is neutral on religion and politics. This is a series for everyone of all beliefs, and is not used to push any particular agenda or belief. The only values heavily promoted are those of integrity, decency, compassion, and achieving great success. The phrase, "doing the right thing," is often used. The Living A Meaningful Life series will make you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. Mostly, this is a highly humorous series, and the banter between the characters will have you laughing out loud. The father and son relationship which develops is riveting, heartwarming, and inspiring. You will come to love all of these characters, and you will become part of their family. Your life will never be the same again, and you will be grateful for having known them. It is not a story, but rather a lifestyle. Join the family and get started on this epic journey with additional installments added often, which will make this series one of the largest and most life-changing series out there.
Author : John Benjamin Lewis,Charles Carroll Bombaugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Fraud
ISBN : UOM:35112104177268