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As already noted, [Jacob] Thomasius was not just a critical historian of philosophy. First and foremost, he was a pious Lutheran who believed that the biblical revelation was the only reliable source of religious truth…
Read more of Wouter Hanegraaff on Jacob Thomasius & Ehregott Daniel Colberg
Before moving on to the anti-apologetic reaction, it is important to provide a brief evaluation of what the preceding discussion contributes to the leading problematics of this book as a whole. I have been arguing…
Read more of Wouter Hanegraaff on the historiographical foundations of the Western esotericism
Интервью въ “Медузѣ” послѣднее (какое?) время устроены очень странно. Вотъ примѣръ: «Предлагаю допустить робкую мысль, что ваша система ценностей не единственная»: Интервью подросткового психолога и секс-педагога Крис Покрытан. Соображенія на его счетъ возникли у меня…
Belief in conspiracies is central to millennialism in the late twentieth and early twenty – first centuries. That is scarcely unexpected — millennialist worldviews have always predisposed their adherents to conspiracy beliefs. Such worldviews may…
Вообще, нужен опыт овладения национальной идеей. Она очень сильна и на неподготовленные натуры может воздействовать разрушительно (злоба и т.д.). Эта идея иррациональна и может подчинить себе разум, разрушить его до основания и включить в свою…
Любопытно разстояніе между недоумѣніями о происхожденіи зла, сформулированными въ гностическихъ теодицеяхъ, и недоумѣніями о происхожденіи новозаветныхъ чудесъ, сформулированными въ некоторыхъ протестантскихъ теологіяхъ.
This chapter uses Ernesto Laclau’s definition of ‘populism’ as a political logic, rather than a movement attached to a specific political ideology or social base (Laclau 2005: 5). According to this definition, there are two…
Read more of Rosanne Hooper on conspiracy theories in Venezuela
[In his Mémoires pour sérvir à l’histoire du Jacobinisme, Augustin] Barruel traced the core ideas of the French Revolution back to the Manichaean concepts of ‘equality’ and ‘freedom’. He regarded Mani as a paternal father…
Read more of Claus Oberhauser on A. Barruel’s idea of the origins of liberté & egalité
The key assumption in audience research as proposed by Stuart Hall is then that there is no inherent (ideological) meaning in a media text since consumers read, decode, reconstruct and, ultimately, produce meaning in different…
Read more of Stef Aupers on conspiracy theories as oppositional readings
Despite their different nuances across time and regions, then, populist politicians unite in a Manichean worldview, in which societies are seen as divided between the elite and the people. – ‘Conspiracy theory and populism’, in…