Political hypocrisy the mask of power, from Hobbes to Orwell and beyond / [Texte imprimé] :
David Runciman
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008
- 1 vol. (XII-272 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Index
Bibliogr. p. 245-258
Introduction -- Hobbes and the mask of power -- Mandeville and the virtues of vice -- The American Revolution and the art of sincerity -- Bentham and the utility of fiction -- Victorian democracy and Victorian hypocrisy -- Orwell and the hypocrisy of ideology -- Conclusion: Sincerity and hypocrisy in democratic politics