Volume 24, Issue 3, 2014
Philosophy: In Search for Knowledge and Ways of Life
Vladimir Przhilenskiy
Pages 24-29
Suspicion and Method: Towards the Post-Theoretical Lifeworld
The article analyzes the historical and philosophical roots of the art of suspicion and its role in the development of modern philosophy and its method. Particular attention is paid to the issues of the comparison of philosophical suspicion and conspiracy theories as a special state of mass consciousness. The article also specifies the dependence of the art of suspicion on the sociology of knowledge and post-theoretical thinking.