On Conspiracy Thinking: Conspiracist Ideology as a Modern Phenomenon

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-537842
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.53784

Christoph, Stefan

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Abstract

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, ...