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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
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100			_aRunciman , David
245			_aPOLITICAL HYPOCRISY : THE MASK OF POWER, FROM HOBBES TO ORWELL AND BEYOND _cDavid Runciman
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260			_aNew Jersy _bPrinceton University Press _c2008/01/01
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500			_aWhat 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.
505			_aContents: 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.
650			_aPolitical ethics.
650			_aHypocrisy -- Political aspects.
650			_aPolitical science -- Philosophy.
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