Political hypocrisy : the mask of power, from Hobbes to Orwell and beyond /

A critical assessement of the problems of sincerity and truth in politics argues that we should accept hypocrisy as a fact of politics without resigning ourselves to it or embracing it, drawing on the lessons of such thinkers as Hobbes, Mandeville, Jefferson, Bentham, Sigwick, and Orwell.

Chi tiết về thư mục
Tác giả chính: Runciman, David
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2018.
Phiên bản:Revised edition.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1zk0mt1
Miêu tả
Tóm tắt:A critical assessement of the problems of sincerity and truth in politics argues that we should accept hypocrisy as a fact of politics without resigning ourselves to it or embracing it, drawing on the lessons of such thinkers as Hobbes, Mandeville, Jefferson, Bentham, Sigwick, and Orwell.
Mô tả vật lý:1 online resource
Thư mục:Includes bibliographical references and index.
số ISBN:9781400889662
1400889669
9780691180854