Political Hypocrisy : : The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond, Revised Edition - Second Edition / / 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. Political Hypocrisy is a timely, and timeless, book on the problems of sinc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | Revised |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 p.) :; 1 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Hobbes and the Mask of Power
- 2. Mandeville and the Virtues ff 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
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index