دانلود کتاب Paranoia: The madness that makes history

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Cover Half Title Endorsement Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents The madness of Ajax Notes 1 What is paranoia?: Individual (clinical) paranoia Definitions Grandmother’s coffee pot Hypotheses about causes The ubiquity of paranoia Characteristics Cultural and moral aspects Collective (historico-cultural) paranoia Paranoid infection in society The origin of the paranoid impulse The present-day urban condition distorts the instincts Paranoia may be mild but widespread Psychopathy Paranoia and mass communication Collective crimes Paranoid climates Rumours Modern premises for the spread of paranoia The lack of interest in collective paranoia Notes 2 The beginnings: Myth and history Cain’s envy The enemy in the Aeneid The development of the relationship between paranoia and politics Columbus’s delusion A voice crying in the wilderness: Brother Antonio Montesinos The cross and interest Paranoid law Notes 3 European nationalism: From cultural renaissance to paranoia Supervising and mistrusting The pride and suspicion of nations The fantasies underlying national law The imaginary race The place of the Jews The Dreyfus Affair Notes 4 Naive persecutors The special nature of America The Black Legend The empty continent ‘American exceptionalism’ Moby Dick Founding principles and purity The separation of the continents and manifest destiny War of conquest Spain and Catholicism The ‘newspaper war’ The United States lands in Asia The white man’s burden Notes 5 Darkness over Europe Great is war Boredom and waiting Pandarus’ arrow and the first casualty Suspicion grows Pre-emptive mobilization Do railway timetables determine the slaughter? The politics of Creon Uncontrollable feelings More voices crying in the wilderness The role of the mass media Suspicions, exaggerations, rumours The sufferings of Belgium Italian paranoia The novelty of atrocities and of the intercontinental dimension The silence after the gunfire Notes 6 Freud, Keynes and the bamboozled man An American messiah The fourteen-point dogma The peace negotiations Wilson’s self-deceptions The paranoid atmosphere of the negotiations The offence Arrogance The seeds of new paranoia Notes 7 Siegfried The illuminating explanation The legitimization of paranoid nationalist ‘law’ The disappearance of multinational coexistence The stab in the back Waiting for more darkness Notes 8 The granite foundation and the hour of idiocy Hitler’s revelations The role of Vienna Mein Kampf The apparition of the Jew Other ‘logical’ steps in Mein Kampf From theoretician to head of state Impatience prevails The choices of death All obstacles are swept away ‘Who talks about the massacre of the Armenians today?’ War at last Definitive omnipotence Absurd calculations Self-burial The need for an enemy Delusion to the end ‘Total war’ The final revelation and the abyss The shadow of Nero Notes 9 The man of steel and the final product Stalin: a name with many meanings Character Radical mistrust Allusion and the creation of a self-contained reality Lenin’s heritage The gulag Yakov and Nadya The diagnosis of paranoia Some daily habits Similarities and differences with respect to Hitler ‘Inversion of causes’: the leader’s mind as the origin of society The massacres The kulaks Famine in Ukraine and elsewhere The Terror and the show trials The twentieth-anniversary speech The ‘denationalizations’ and the ideology that lay behind them Unpreparedness for war Counter-attack and the conclusion of the conflict Suspicion hits the Jews Stalin’s death The paradoxes of paranoid totalitarianism Final questions Notes 10 Fire that feeds fire War crimes and Allied double standards Collective paranoia and forms of government Airborne warfare as total war Poetry and romantic enthusiasm in the air war The first bombs of the Second World War The three phases of Allied bombing Douhet’s predictions are proved wrong The bombing of Germany The bombing of Italy Notes 11 Further and further west War against an inferior race War between different races, total war The erroneous calculation of pre-emptive attack The impossibility of isolation Fear of encirclement A strategy founded on haste Suspicion and the missed opportunity Towards the atomic bomb Contagious fanaticism The range of options continues to narrow Hiroshima The diary of Michihiko Hachiya The withdrawal of projections and meeting the enemy More elation Nagasaki Rationalizations Secrecy Later justifications The Tokyo Trials The reawakening of Ajax Dr Hachiya’s farewell Notes 12 A plan for the twenty-first century? Paranoia and the new century The Cold War The disappearance of the Soviet enemy The appearance of the Islamic enemy Paranoia takes the form of a government document The war caused by suspicion The responsibility of those who disseminate paranoid messages The contagiousness of paranoia The impact on civilian life Notes 13 Inconclusive thoughts Understanding evil Paranoia and psychopathy again Individual, mass and leader Three generations of mass media ‘The Giant’ Dictators Giving back medals Eighty per cent? The abandonment of morality among intellectuals and among the populace Why modern life offers paranoia new spaces The relationship with the-isms Paranoid return Clandestine revolutionary groups The continuity between limited attacks and genocides Acceptance of responsibility and denial Who won? Disarmament and historiography Poems and anthems Monuments Open contradictions Some examples of everyday paranoia Indifference and Europe Notes Iago’s whisper Notes Bibliography Index