Legitimate Distrust is a rigorous and provocative work of cultural and political analysis that challenges conventional understandings of conspiracy theories. Rather than treating such beliefs as fringe, irrational, or inherently dangerous, Sebastian Saviano reframes them as often
logical responses to systemic institutional failures. Drawing on interdisciplinary research across political theory, sociology, history, philosophy, and psychology, this book makes a compelling case: when the social contract is eroded, when elites obscure truth, and when institutions act without accountability, suspicion is not only natural-it is
rational.
As Book Two in
The Collapse of Trust Series,
Legitimate Distrust builds upon the foundation laid in
The Allegiance Paradox, moving from the question of
citizenship and betrayal to a deeper inquiry into the
epistemology of mistrust. It seeks to understand not only
why conspiracy theories thrive but also
what their proliferation reveals about deeper civic and structural fractures.
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