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Political hypocrisy : the mask of power, from Hobbes to Orwell and beyond /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400828197 1400828198 0691148155 9780691148151 |