On Lying and Politics
A Library of America Special Publication
$23.30
- Paperback
158 pages
- Release Date
18 October 2022
Summary
More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich
“No one,” Hannah Arendt observed, “has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue.” But why do politicians lie? What is the relationship between political lies and self-delusion? And how much organized deceit can a democracy endure before it ceases to function?
Fifty years ago, the century’s greatest politic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598537314 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598537318 |
| Author: | Hannah Arendt, David Bromwich |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 158 |
| Release Date: | 18 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 190mm x 121mm |
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About The Author
Hannah Arendt
HANNAH ARENDT (1906-1975) was one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Revolution, and the posthumously published The Life of the Mind. Her commentaries on modern American and European politics and on the history of political thought were collected in Essays in Understanding, Thinking Without a Banister, and Responsibility and Judgment.
DAVID BROMWICH is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. His books include The Intellectual Career of Edmund Burke and American Breakdown- The Trump Years and How They Befell Us. His articles on contemporary politics have appeared in Dissent, The Nation, HuffPost, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books.
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