Paranoia and modernity : Cervantes to Rousseau / John Farrell.

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.

341 pages ; 24 cm

Agent and other -- The responsible knight -- The knight errant -- Luther and the devil's world -- The terrors of reform -- The science of suspicion -- The demons of Descartes and Hobbes -- Pascal and power -- The art of polite disguise -- Swift and the satiric absolute -- A flight from humanity -- Invisible agents -- Rousseau's great plot -- An attempted escape -- Epilogue : paranoia and postmodernism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.