Book description
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…
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1 author picked Mysteries and Conspiracies as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Can detective stories help us to understand the socio-political transformation of Western society since the days of the Enlightenment?
I love ambitious books of interdisciplinary analysis, and this book sets out to bridge the gap between the fantastical worlds of Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, and Jules Maigret and the harsh realities of Adam Smith, Erving Goffman, and Richard Hofstadter.
The detective, the conspiracy theorist, and the sociologist all share a desire to establish order and certainty during chaotic and dangerous times.
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