The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics by Jay, Martin
The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics by Jay, Martin

The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics

When Michael Dukakis accused George H. W. Bush of being the "Joe Isuzu of American Politics" during...
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The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics by Jay, Martin

The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics

$404.57
The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics by Jay, Martin

The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics

$404.57
Author: Martin Jay
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

When Michael Dukakis accused George H. W. Bush of being the "Joe Isuzu of American Politics" during the 1988 presidential campaign, he asserted in a particularly American tenor the near-ancient idea that lying and politics (and perhaps advertising, too) are inseparable, or at least intertwined. Our response to this phenomenon, writes the renowned intellectual historian Martin Jay, tends to vacillate--often impotently--between moral outrage and amoral realism. In The Virtues of Mendacity, Jay resolves to avoid this conventional framing of the debate over lying and politics by examining what has been said in support of, and opposition to, political lying from Plato and St. Augustine to Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss. Jay proceeds to show that each philosopher's argument corresponds to a particular conception of the political realm, which decisively shapes his or her attitude toward political mendacity. He then applies this insight to a variety of contexts and questions about lying and politics. Surprisingly, he concludes by asking if lying in politics is really all that bad. The political hypocrisy that Americans in particular periodically decry may be, in Jay's view, the best alternative to the violence justified by those who claim to know the truth.



Author: Martin Jay
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 02/20/2012
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.18w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780813932460
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2012 pg. 9

About the Author

Martin Jay is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California-Berkeley, and the author of The Dialectical Imagination and Downcast Eyes.


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