How to Escape from the Diabolic Triangle?: Followed by a Short Analysis of Some Other Collective Delusions - Softcover
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Conspiracy theories have always been with us, but in the age of the Internet, twenty-four-hour news programs of varying reliability, and ever-more incendiary talk radio, the crop of rumors, bombshells, and shadowy secrets seems more extensive and potent than ever. How to Escape from the Diabolic Triangle? dives into those collective delusions to show what they mean to us as individuals and what role they play in society. Looking closely at nine cases of collective delusion, Jan Berting shows how they can help society articulate widespread fears, but that at the same time they can be wildly misleading, even dangerous.Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
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Jan Berting is professor emeritus of sociology and social policy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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In these postmodern times, we are bombarded with rumours, allegations of conspiracies and revelations about the real, but hidden objectives of powerful interest groups. We cannot live without collective representations. They are inside us, as part of our ‘covert’ culture. But the observation that they are a substantial part of our life also requires us to be very attentive to their important and partly unconscious negative role. Although these representations are often useful, they can also be misleading and dangerous.
In this publication, Dr. Jan Berting presents the disjunction phenomenon. He analyses nine cases, treating the disjunction between a collective representation of society and the role of ‘reality’ in different ways.
Dr. Jan Berting is professor emeritus (Sociology and Social Policy) of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. For 15 years, he has lived in Marseille. Some of his recent works are Fundamentalisme en Democratie, (2004); Europe: a Heritage, a Challenge, a Promise (2006), translated into Italian as Europa: un ‘eredità, una sfida, una promessa (2007), and De versplinterde samenleving (2006), translated into English as The Fragmented Society.
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