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Political hypocrisy : the mask of power, from Hobbes to Orwell and beyond

Author: David Runciman
Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David Runciman
ISBN: 9780691129310 0691129312
OCLC Number: 181517154
Description: xii, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: David Runciman.
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