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The devil wins : a history of lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment /
Is it ever acceptable to lie? This question plays a surprisingly important role in the story of Europe's transition from medieval to modern society. According to many historians, Europe became modern when Europeans began to lie-that is, when they began to argue that it is sometimes acceptable t...
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[2014]
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| 100 | 1 | |a Denery, Dallas G. |q (Dallas George), |d 1964- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The devil wins : |b a history of lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment / |c Dallas G. Denery II. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Princeton, NJ : |b Princeton University Press, |c [2014] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2015 | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; The Devil Wins; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Is It Ever Acceptable to Lie?; PART ONE: Theologians Ask the Question; CHAPTER ONE. The Devil; Six Days and Two Sentences Later; The Devil and the Lie; Making Sense of Genesis 1, 2, and 3; The Devil's Lie from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages; The Devil's Lie from the Middle Ages to the Reformation; The Prince of This World; From Satan's Stratagems to Human Nature; CHAPTER TWO. God; Can God Lie?; On Lions, Fishhooks, and Mousetraps; Divine Deception and the Sacrament of Truth. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Luther, Calvin, and the Hidden GodRené Descartes, Pierre Bayle, and the End of Divine Deception; CHATER THREE. Human Beings; Every Lie Is a Sin; Every Sin Is a Lie; Biblical Liars; Augustine among the Scholastics; Institutional Transformations; Equivocation, Mental Reservation, and Amphibology; From Pascal to Augustine and Beyond; PART TWO: Courtiers and Women Ask the Question; CHAPTER FOUR. Courtiers; Flatterers, Wheedlers, and Gossipmongers; Early Modern Uncertainty and Deception; Uncertainty and Skepticism in the Medieval Court; Entangled in Leviathan's Loins. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Christine de Pizan and Just HypocrisyFrom Lies to Civility; Bernard Mandeville and the World Lies Built; CHAPTER FIVE. Women; Lessons about Lies; All about Eve, All about Women; The Biology of Feminine Deceit; Christine de Pizan, Misogyny, and Self-Knowledge; All Men Are Liars; Madeleine de Scudéry, the Salon, and the Pleasant Lie; CONCLUSION: The Lie Becomes Modern; Notes; Bibliography; Index. | |
| 520 | |a Is it ever acceptable to lie? This question plays a surprisingly important role in the story of Europe's transition from medieval to modern society. According to many historians, Europe became modern when Europeans began to lie-that is, when they began to argue that it is sometimes acceptable to lie. This popular account offers a clear trajectory of historical progression from a medieval world of faith, in which every lie is sinful, to a more worldly early modern society in which lying becomes a permissible strategy for self-defense and self-advancement. Unfortunately, this story is wrong. F. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Truthfulness and falsehood. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Truthfulness and falsehood. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01158255 | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Denery, Dallas G., II. |t Devil Wins : A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment. |d Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2015 |z 9780691163215 |
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