The post-truth era dishonesty and deception in contemporary life
"Dishonesty inspires more euphemisms than copulation or defecation. This helps desensitize us to its implications. In the post-truth era we don't just have truth and lies but a third category of ambiguous statements that are not exactly the truth but fall just short of a lie. Enhanced trut...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press
cop. 2004
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34654148*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Beyond honesty
- A brief history of lying
- The honesty connection
- Whistler's druthers
- Great pretenders
- Why lie?
- Sex, lies, and sex roles
- Mentors and role models
- It's academic
- Narrative truths and lies
- Masked media
- Peter Pan morality
- Deception.com
- The suspicious society
- The price of prevarication
- The case for honesty.
