Paranoid Pedagogies: Education, Culture, and Paranoia

This edited book explores the under—analyzed significance and function of paranoia as a psychological habitus of the contemporary educational and social moment. The editors and contributors argue that the desire for epistemological truth beyond uncertainty characteristic of paranoia continues to profoundly shape the aesthetic texture and imaginaries of educational thought and practice. Attending to the psychoanalytic, post—psychoanalytic, and critical significance of paranoia as a mode of e...