The Specter of Hypocrisy: Testing the Limits of Moral Discourse

by Raphael Sassower

Book Overview

Raphael Sassower examines the concept of hypocrisy for its strategic potential as a means of personal protection and social cohesion. Given the contemporary context of post-truth, the examination of degrees or kinds of hypocrisy moves from the Greek etymology of masks worn on the theater stage to the Hebrew etymology of the color adjustment of chameleons to their environment. Canonical presuppositions about the uniformity of the mind and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030605752
• ISBN13: 9783030605759
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"