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On Bullshit by: Harry G. Frankfurt List Price: £5.95 Vegetarian Books Price: £5.77 You Save: £0.18 ( 3%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 177.3 EAN: 9780691122946 ISBN: 0691122946 Label: Princeton University Press Manufacturer: Princeton University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 80 Publication Date: January 10, 2005 Publisher: Princeton University Press Studio: Princeton University Press Sales Rank: 13732 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - How to recognize steaming piles of humbug, quackery, balderdash - and sincerityThis surprising essay opens with the kind of observation one would expect to emanate from a disaffected teenager's bedroom rather than an Ivy League university. "One of the salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit." The difference here, of course, is that few adolescents will follow up their judgement with sixty-seven pages of awesome prose. Not a word is wasted. The early part of the essay explores links with words such as "humbug" and "quackery", and to questions of truth and falsity. We all think we know what lying is - telling an untruth - but "a person may be lying even if the statement he makes is true, as long as he himself believes that the statement is false and intends by making it to deceive." ... Read More: Rating:  - A well-fertilised discussion...My first surprise about this book (other than the title, which I cannot add to this review due to the propriety involved) is its brevity. Given the vastness, at least in potential, of the subject matter, the book could fill volumes. Of course, the author Harry Frankfurt might argue that there are indeed already volumes and volumes of balderdash. He states at the beginning that 'One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much', er, humbug. 'Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share.' Frankfurt claims that the issue has not attracted sustained inquiry (he obviously has not been part of the committee meetings I've attended in the past few decades). This book, or rather booklet, is more of a brief ... Read More: Rating: - HilariousRich in philosophical thinking, challenging in content, and gripping as a smooth read, On BullShit stands out as a tantalizing novel. You never guess what you will find until you start reading it. One thing for sure is that you will laugh, smile and ponder in turns. In the end, you will be more of a truthful guy than a bullshitter. Another wryly humorous and philosophically insightful novel is THE USURPER AND OTHER STORIES |
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