Political Hypocrisy : : The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond / / David Runciman.
What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical. But, as David Runciman suggests, it is actually much more cynical to pretend that politics can ever be completely sincere. The most dangerous form of political hypocrisy is to claim to have a politi...
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Runciman, David, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Political Hypocrisy : The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond / David Runciman. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2008 1 online resource (288 p.) : 1 halftone. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Hobbes and the Mask of Power -- 2. Mandeville and the Virtues of Vice -- 3. The American Revolution and the Art of Sincerity -- 4. Bentham and the Utility of Fiction -- 5. Victorian Democracy and Victorian Hypocrisy -- 6. Orwell and the Hypocrisy of Ideology -- Conclusion. Sincerity and Hypocrisy in Democratic Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical. But, as David Runciman suggests, it is actually much more cynical to pretend that politics can ever be completely sincere. The most dangerous form of political hypocrisy is to claim to have a politics without hypocrisy. Political Hypocrisy is a timely, and timeless, book on the problems of sincerity and truth in politics, and how we can deal with them without slipping into hypocrisy ourselves. Runciman tackles the problems through lessons drawn from some of the great truth-tellers in modern political thought--Hobbes, Mandeville, Jefferson, Bentham, Sidgwick, and Orwell--and applies his ideas to different kinds of hypocritical politicians from Oliver Cromwell to Hillary Clinton. Runciman argues that we should accept hypocrisy as a fact of politics, but without resigning ourselves to it, let alone cynically embracing it. We should stop trying to eliminate every form of hypocrisy, and we should stop vainly searching for ideally authentic politicians. Instead, we should try to distinguish between harmless and harmful hypocrisies and should worry only about its most damaging varieties. Written in a lively style, this book will change how we look at political hypocrisy and how we answer some basic questions about politics: What are the limits of truthfulness in politics? And when, where, and how should we expect our politicians to be honest with us, and about what?Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Hypocrisy Political aspects. Political ethics. Political science Philosophy. POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691148151 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400828197 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400828197 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400828197.jpg |
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