Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 237 pages
- Published by: Imprint Academic March 1, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1845400712
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1845400712
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Book Dimensions:
8.1 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 9.9 ounces
Product Review
"The author gives an even-handed discussion of the strategies people use to demonise their chosen Others This book will help readers navigate rough waters in the quest for big truths." Micheal Grosso, The Times Higher Education Supplement. "Northcote should be praised for his courage and integrity to pursue such a risky subject matter In a highly focused manner, Northcote takes us from the fear of secret societies in the seventeenth century to the societal psychological distress caused by alienating behaviors of those who control the discourse of this debate." Chris Rawls, Metapsychology. "The interest of this book is that it shows how the debate is rooted in wider discursive formations that have come to underlie Western thinking more generally. This book provides a very interesting discussion of the politics of truth in this field". David Lorimer, Network review (Summer 2008)
Product Description
Based on ten years of research into the politics of belief surrounding paranormal ideas, here, the author asks whether debates over the paranormal can ever be fruitful, given the deep-seated discursive basis of the different world-views of its participants.
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