Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies by Luc Boltanski

Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies

Luc Boltanski

320 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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