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David Runciman

Political Hypocrisy

The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond, Revised Edition

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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 Hi… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-18085-4
  • EAN: 9780691180854
  • Produktnummer: 24191955
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 300 S.
  • Masse: H13.5 cm x B20.3 cm x D2.1 cm 266 g
  • Auflage: 2 New edition
  • Abbildungen: 1 b/w illus.
  • Gewicht: 266
  • Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor


David Runciman is professor of politics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity Hall. His books include The Confidence Trap and The Politics of Good Intentions (both Princeton). He writes regularly about politics for the London Review of Books.

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