Faking it /

This book is about the intrusive fear that we may not be what we appear to be, or worse, that we may be only what we appear to be and nothing more. It is concerned with the worry of being exposed as frauds in our profession, cads in our love lives, as less than virtuously motivated actors when we ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, William Ian, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Identity (Psychology)
Social role.
Authenticity (Philosophy)
Truthfulness and falsehood.
Hypocrisy > Religious aspects.
Self-doubt.
Identité (Psychologie)
Rôle social.
Authenticité (Philosophie)
Mensonge.
Doute de soi.
PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.
Hypocrisy > Religious aspects
Self-doubt
Social role
Truthfulness and falsehood
Identität
Soziale Rolle
Identiteit.
Rollen (sociale wetenschappen)
Zelfkennis.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: split in two
  • Hypocrisy and Jesus
  • Anti-hypocrisy: looking bad in order to be good
  • Virtues with natural immunities to hypocrisy
  • Naked truth: hey, wanna ...?
  • In divine services and other ritualized performances
  • Say it like you mean it: mandatory faking and apology
  • Flattery and praise
  • Hoist with his own petard
  • The self, the double, and the sense of self
  • At the core at last: the primordial Jew
  • Passing and wishing you were what you are not
  • Authentic moments with the beautiful and sublime?
  • The alchemist: role as addiction
  • 'I love you': taking a bullet vs. biting one
  • Boys crying and girls playing dumb
  • Acting our roles: mimicry, makeup, and pills
  • False (im)modesty
  • Caught in the act.

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