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Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies
Luc Boltanski
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Description for Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies
Paperback. * A pathbreaking new book by one of the world s leading sociologists * The book is a study of the rise of detective novels and spy novels in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Boltanski shows that these genres tell us something important about the nature of modern societies and the modern state. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 548.
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 theories. In each instance, social reality was cast into doubt. We owe the project of organizing and unifying this reality for a particular ... Read more
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 theories. In each instance, social reality was cast into doubt. We owe the project of organizing and unifying this reality for a particular ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745664057
SKU
V9780745664057
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About Luc Boltanski
Luc Boltanski is Professor of Sociology at the L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Reviews for Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies
“An ambitious investigation of crime fiction and its relation to modern society” Times Higher Education Most of us take for granted the idea that the social world has a front stage made of rules and norms and a backstage of “intrigues,” “invisible plots,” and “hidden intentions.” When did that sense of a reality behind the reality ... Read more