Political hypocrisy the mask of power, from Hobbes to Orwell and beyond /
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Princeton University Press,
c2008.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- Hobbes and the mask of power
- Mandeville and the virtues of vice
- The American Revolution and the art of sincerity
- Bentham and the utility of fiction
- Victorian democracy and Victorian hypocrisy
- Orwell and the hypocrisy of ideology
- Conclusion: Sincerity and hypocrisy in democratic politics.