![]() I have even been thinking about removing Hofstadter from the syllabus altogether. ![]() Thus, we now only discuss Hofstadter after I have introduced my students to more recent and, as I think, more useful theorizations of conspiracy theory. As I explain below, I have become increasingly skeptical about the usefulness of the concept of paranoia for understanding conspiracy theory. The reason for that is the topic of this article. I now also teach Hofstadter a few weeks into the semester. Over the past fifteen years I have taught this class in different versions, but this was the only time "paranoia" featured in the title and I never included Freud again. ![]() It was called "Conspiracy and Paranoia," and the first texts we read were Freud's classic case study of Daniel Paul Schreber (1911) and Richard Hofstadter's essay on the "Paranoid Style in American Politics" (1964). I taught my first class on conspiracy theories at the University of Bonn in 2007. ![]()
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