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.

গ্রন্থ-পঞ্জীর বিবরন
প্রধান লেখক: Runciman, David
বিন্যাস: Licensed eBooks
ভাষা:ইংরেজি
প্রকাশিত: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2018.
সংস্করন:Revised edition.
অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1zk0mt1
সূচিপত্রের সারণি:
  • Introduction
  • Hobbes and the mask of power
  • Mandeville and the virtues of vice
  • The American Revolution and the art of sincerity
  • Bentham and the utility of fiction
  • Victorian democracy and Victorian hypocrisy
  • Orwell and the hypocrisy of ideology
  • Conclusion: Sincerity and hypocrisy in democratic politics.