Faking it
This book is about the intrusive fear that we may not be what we appear to be, or worse, that we may be only what we appear to be and nothing more. It is concerned with the worry of being exposed as frauds in our profession, cads in our love lives, as less than virtuously motivated actors when we ar...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2003.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42030055*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: split in two
- Hypocrisy and Jesus
- Antihypocrisy: looking bad in order to be good
- Virtues naturally immune to hypocrisy
- Naked truth: hey, wanna f***?
- In divine services and other ritualized performances
- Say it like you mean it: mandatory faking and apology
- Flattery and praise
- Hoist with his own petard
- The self, the double, and the sense of self
- At the core at last: the primordial Jew
- Passing and wishing you were what you are not
- Authentic moments with the beautiful and sublime?
- The alchemist: role as addiction
- 'I love you': taking a bullet versus biting one
- Boys crying and girls playing dumb
- Acting our roles: mimicry, makeup, and pills
- False (im)modesty
- Caught in the act.
