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The Virtues of Mendacity

Author : Martin Jay
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813929768
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Virtues of Mendacity written by Martin Jay and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Michael Dukakis accused George H. W. Bush of being the "Joe Isuzu of American Politics" during the 1988 presidential campaign, he asserted in a particularly American tenor the near-ancient idea that lying and politics (and perhaps advertising, too) are inseparable, or at least intertwined. Our response to this phenomenon, writes the renowned intellectual historian Martin Jay, tends to vacillate—often impotently—between moral outrage and amoral realism. In The Virtues of Mendacity, Jay resolves to avoid this conventional framing of the debate over lying and politics by examining what has been said in support of, and opposition to, political lying from Plato and St. Augustine to Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss. Jay proceeds to show that each philosopher’s argument corresponds to a particular conception of the political realm, which decisively shapes his or her attitude toward political mendacity. He then applies this insight to a variety of contexts and questions about lying and politics. Surprisingly, he concludes by asking if lying in politics is really all that bad. The political hypocrisy that Americans in particular periodically decry may be, in Jay’s view, the best alternative to the violence justified by those who claim to know the truth.

The Law of Universal Mendacity

Author : Bo De Yang
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1418405728
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book The Law of Universal Mendacity written by Bo De Yang and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-04-16 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a reaction to contemporary trends. It describes a revolutionary way of treating truthfulness, honesty and deception. Does our civilization really possess an optimistic bias towards truthfulness? Most people are offended by overt lies and some are duped by them some of the time. Even so, we oil our social gears with white lies: not all people - some don't; others cause hurt; yet others suffer guilt. The book shows how to draw maximum information from assertions - whether lying or misguided or sincere. It shows how to use them to advantage by looking to the reality that underlies the words that are used, and by noticing the way they are used: words have a real meaning that is opposite to their intended meanings. We reflect on this in the words we use. A mainstream warning is supported, namely that our civilization is in fact endangered. False communications threaten us, especially in our ever increasing power over the world, through science. Radiative and chemical emissions harm us. The book is well informed with regard to waste in science and industry and to dangers for public safety. The treatment shows how individual survival is promoted by avoiding the ever more evident pitfalls. Perhaps, by this means, our final hour can be postponed.

Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy

Author : Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317097424
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy written by Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study devoted to this topic, Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy offers an important contribution to scholarship on the theatre as well as on early modern attitudes in France, specifically on the subject of lying and deception. Unusually for a scholarly work on seventeenth-century theatre, it is particularly alert to plays as performed pieces and not simply printed texts. The study also distinguishes itself by offering original readings of Molière alongside innovative analyses of other playwrights. The chapters offer fresh insights on well-known plays by Molière and Pierre Corneille but also invite readers to discover lesser-known works of the time (by writers such as Benserade, Thomas Corneille, Dufresny and Rotrou). Through comparative and sustained close readings, including a linguistic and speech act approach, a historical survey of texts with an analysis of different versions and a study of irony, the reader is shown the manifest ways in which different playwrights incorporate the comedic tropes of lying and scheming, confusion and unmasking. Drawing particular attention to the levels of communicative or mis-communicative exchanges on the character-to-character axis and the character-to-audience axis, this work examines the process whereby characters in the comedies construct narratives designed to trick, misdirect, dazzle, confuse or exploit their interlocutors. In the different incarnations of seducer, parasite, cross-dresser, duplicitous narrator/messenger and deluded mythomaniac, the author underscores the way in which the figure of the liar both entertains and troubles, making it a fascinating subject worthy of detailed investigation.

Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Author : Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317229509
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture written by Ingo Berensmeyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture examines the historical, cultural, and epistemological underpinnings of lying and deception in early modern England, including the political, religious, aesthetic, and philosophical discourses that governed the codes of lying and truth-telling from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. The contributions to this collection draw on a wide range of early modern English literature from Shakespeare to Swift, and from travel writing to poetry, in order to explore the extent to which plays, poems, and narrative texts in this period were sites of negotiation, and, at times, of ideological warfare between the moral imperative of truth-telling and the expediency of telling lies. What were the cultural norms of truthfulness and lying, and on what basis were they constructed? What were the consequences when someone did not share the assumed common project of truth-telling? And which forms of communication were exempt from the pragmatic strictures on mendacious discourse? This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

Mendacity

Author : Bob Furlin
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300118458
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Mendacity written by Bob Furlin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mendacity the Honey Dipper World is a fictional story of intrigue and deceit in the "Cold War' and the "Silent Warriors' who played a major role in defeating the 'Evil Empire'.

Mendacity

Author : c. lynnette thomas
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312894164
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Mendacity written by c. lynnette thomas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mendacity is simply an artistic word for lies, deception, dishonesty. This little book is a simple, artistic tool to encourage readers to let go of lies and come into the truth of their worth. A raw, real-time account in poetic form, taken from the notes of a survivor of violence that were scribbled on her journey out of mendacity into the Truth. Too often, it is difficult for us to put words to the swirl of thoughts and emotions that overtake us in the midst of terrible times. This little book should help you do that. And for those who ask the worn out, "Why doesn't she just leave?", Mendacity may help you understand and answer that question--and more. God bless oxo

Perfect Mendacity

Author : Jason Wells
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0573698465
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Perfect Mendacity written by Jason Wells and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Kreutzer, a microbiologist for a defense contractor, is being investigated by his employers over an incriminating memo that was leaked to the media. Walter thinks his Moroccan wife may have done the whistle-blowing, and to protect her - and himself - Walter needs to learn how to beat a lie detector, and fast. D¿avore Peoples, a polygraph consultant, is happy to help - for a price, of course. But D¿avore¿s technique will require Walter to look deep within himself, a terrifying prospect for a man hiding from his past. With his best friend spying on him, his wife intent on opening old wounds, and D¿avore uncovering dark secrets, Walter¿s desperate journey toward the perfect lie becomes a spiral into paranoia and bitter reckoning.

The Audacious Mendacity of Lily Green

Author : Shelley Weiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907565205
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book The Audacious Mendacity of Lily Green written by Shelley Weiner and published by . This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her thirty-fourth birthday Lily Green tells her mother a lie. It is her first one ever and it's life-changing. 'I'm engaged to be married,' she blurts out, and discovers that telling a lie can make things happen and - amazingly for such a dull soul - she's good at it. On the wings of deception she soars from her mundane terraced cottage in Hatch End to the glitziest hotel in London. Along the way she locates her candidate for matrimony: a good-looking young man called Tom, who seems to fall for her tall stories and physical charms.But who is Tom really? Is he the simple and gullible soul he appears to be? As for Lily's mother, Eva, an archetypal card-playing suburbanite - who is she when the web of deceit that entangles them all is unpicked? The outcome of the revelations is dramatic, catastrophic - and liberating. THE AUDACIOUS MENDACITY OF LILY GREEN is a darkly comic tale about loneliness, desperation, and the power of self-reinvention. Through her mastery of the art of lying, Lily Green discovers the meaning of truth and love.

Mayan Mendacity

Author : L. J. M. Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781760404574
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Mayan Mendacity written by L. J. M. Owen and published by . This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bones, along with other remains, are a gift for Elizabeth. But soon the giver reveals his true nature. An enraged colleague then questions Elizabeth's family history. Elizabeth seeks DNA evidence to put all skeletons to rest.

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America

Author : Dave Tell
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271060220
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America by : Dave Tell

Download or read book Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America written by Dave Tell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervening in American cultural politics. In the twentieth century alone, the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America’s most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy.

Strange Justice

Author : Jane Mayer
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
ISBN 13 : 163168163X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Strange Justice written by Jane Mayer and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a New York Times Best Seller and a National Book Award finalist. Charged with racial, sexual, and political overtones, the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as a Supreme Court justice was one of the most divisive spectacles the country has ever seen. Anita Hill’s accusation of sexual harassment by Thomas, and the attacks on her that were part of his high-placed supporters’ rebuttal, both shocked the nation and split it into two camps. One believed Hill was lying, the other believed that the man who ultimately took his place on the Supreme Court had committed perjury. In this brilliant, often shocking book, Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, two of the nation’s top investigative journalists examine all aspects of this controversial case. They interview witnesses that the Judiciary Committee chose not to call, and present documents never before made public. They detail the personal and professional pasts of both Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill and lay bare a campaign of lobbying, public relations, and character assassination fueled by conservative power at its most desperate. A gripping high-stakes drama, Strange Justice is not only a definitive account of the Clarence Thomas nomination hearings, but is also a classic casebook of how the Washington game is played by those for whom winning is everything.

The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump

Author : Ronald J. Sider
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 172527180X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump written by Ronald J. Sider and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should Christians think about Donald Trump? His policies, his style, his personal life? Thirty evangelical Christians (listed below) wrestle with these tough questions. They are Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. They don't all agree, but they seek to let Christ be the Lord of their political views. They seek to apply biblical standards to difficult debates about our current political situation. Vast numbers of white evangelicals enthusiastically support Donald Trump. Do biblical standards on truth, justice, life, freedom, and personal integrity warrant or challenge that support? How does that support of President Trump affect the image of Christianity in the larger culture? Around the world? Many younger evangelicals today are rejecting evangelical Christianity, even Christianity itself. To what extent is that because of widespread evangelical support for Donald Trump? Don't read this book to find support for your views. Read it to be challenged--with facts, reason, and biblical principles. With contributions from: Michael W. Austin Randall Balmer Vicki Courtney Daniel Deitrich Samuel Escobar John Fea Irene Fowler Mark Galli J. Colin Harris Stephen R. Haynes Matt Henderson Christopher A. Hutchinson Bandy X. Lee David S. Lim David C. Ludden Ryan McAnnally-Linz Steven Meyer Napp Nazworth D. Zac Niringiye Christopher Pieper Reid Ribble Ronald J. Sider Edward G. Simmons James R. Skillen James W. Skillen Julia K. Stronks Chris Thurman Miroslav Volf Peter Wehner George Yancey

Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World

Author : Christopher Gill
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World written by Christopher Gill and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays explore the understanding of the boundary between fact and fiction in Ancient Greece and Rome and considers how far 'lying' was distinguished from 'fiction' in different periods and genres. Early Greek poetry, Plato, and Greek and Roman historiography and novels are covered.

I Wear the Black Hat

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439184518
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book I Wear the Black Hat written by Chuck Klosterman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One-of-a-kind cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman “offers up great facts, interesting cultural insights, and thought-provoking moral calculations in this look at our love affair with the anti-hero” (New York magazine). Chuck Klosterman, “The Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine, has walked into the darkness. In I Wear the Black Hat, he questions the modern understanding of villainy. When we classify someone as a bad person, what are we really saying, and why are we so obsessed with saying it? How does the culture of malevolence operate? What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why don’t we see Bernhard Goetz the same way we see Batman? Who is more worthy of our vitriol—Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O.J. Simpson’s second-worst decision? And why is Klosterman still haunted by some kid he knew for one week in 1985? Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and imaginative hypotheticals, I Wear the Black Hat delivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the antihero (seemingly the only kind of hero America still creates). As the Los Angeles Times notes: “By underscoring the contradictory, often knee-jerk ways we encounter the heroes and villains of our culture, Klosterman illustrates the passionate but incomplete computations that have come to define American culture—and maybe even American morality.” I Wear the Black Hat is a rare example of serious criticism that’s instantly accessible and really, really funny.

Making the Mummies Dance

Author : Thomas Hoving
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671880756
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Making the Mummies Dance written by Thomas Hoving and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former director of the famed New York museum recounts his activities at the art world's pinnacle, from wooing important patrons to battling for acquisitions.

Holding the Line

Author : Guy M. Snodgrass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0593084373
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Holding the Line written by Guy M. Snodgrass and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers an insider's sometimes shocking account of how Defense Secretary James Mattis led the U.S. military through global challenges while serving as a crucial check on the Trump Administration.

Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future

Author : Paul Krugman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324005025
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future written by Paul Krugman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller An accessible, compelling introduction to today’s major policy issues from the New York Times columnist, best-selling author, and Nobel prize–winning economist Paul Krugman, now with a new preface. There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no stronger foe of zombie economics, the misunderstandings that just won’t die. In Arguing with Zombies, Krugman tackles many of these misunderstandings, taking stock of where the United States has come from and where it’s headed in a series of concise, digestible chapters. Drawn mainly from his popular New York Times column, they cover a wide range of issues, organized thematically and framed in the context of a wider debate. Explaining the complexities of health care, housing bubbles, tax reform, Social Security, and so much more with unrivaled clarity and precision, Arguing with Zombies is Krugman at the height of his powers. It is an indispensable guide to two decades’ worth of political and economic discourse in the United States and around the globe, and now includes a preface on "Zombies in the Age of COVID-19." With quick, vivid sketches, Krugman turns his readers into intelligent consumers of the daily news and hands them the keys to unlock the concepts behind the greatest economic policy issues of our time. In doing so, he delivers an instant classic that can serve as a reference point for this and future generations.