Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond, Revised Edition - Second Edition
Philosophie, Politique et gouvernement
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Résumé
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… 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 Runciman draws on the work of some of the great truth-tellers in modern political thought--Hobbes Mandeville Jefferson Bentham Sidgwick and Orwell--and applies his ideas to different kinds of hypocritical politicians from Oliver Cromwell to Hillary Clinton He argues that we should accept hypocrisy as a fact of politics--the most dangerous form of political hypocrisy is to claim to have a politics without hypocrisy Featuring a new foreword that takes the story up to Donald Trump this book examines why instead of vainly searching for authentic politicians we should try to distinguish between harmless and harmful hypocrisies and worry only about the most damaging varieties