On Betrayal

by Avishai Margalit

Book Overview

Adultery, treason, and apostasy no longer carry the weight they once did. Yet we constantly see and hear stories of betrayal, and many people have personally experienced a destructive breach of loyalty. Avishai Margalit argues that the tension between the ubiquity of betrayal and the loosening of its hold is a sign of the strain between ethics and morality, between thick and thin human relations. On Betrayal offers a philosophical account...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674048261
• ISBN13: 9780674048263
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"