Christoph, Stefan (2022) On Conspiracy Thinking: Conspiracist Ideology as a Modern Phenomenon. POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE, 10 (4). pp. 135-145. ISSN 2183-2463,
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Conspiracism is a well-known topos in the history of humankind. Cassius Dio wrote about it as did anti-Judaic authors in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, from the dawn of modernity until today, we have faced the rise of a new phenomenon. Pretty much on the eve of the French Revolution, conspiracists began to tell anti-Catholic and anti-masonic narratives down to the last detail. Jews, later on, became a recurring foe in those anti-modernist narratives. Conspiracism managed successfully to incorporate other forms of anti-modernism to form a fairly new form of thinking that I call "conspiracist ideology." While Enlightenment was the setting in which this amalgamation could take place, conspiracist ideology and its intellectual roots were characterized by a deep rejection of enlightenment thinking. The dialectical nature of conspiracist ideology is what makes it interesting from a historical perspective, in particular for the history of ideas.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ; anti-modernism; conspiracism; conspiracy thinking; Enlightenment; history of ideas; intellectual history |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 320 Political science |
| Divisions: | Philosophy, Art History, History, and Humanities > Institut für Politikwissenschaft |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Oct 2023 06:43 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Oct 2023 06:43 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/56534 |
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