Political Hypocrisy
The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond
by David Runciman
288 pages· 2010· ISBN 9780691148151
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A critical assessement of the problems of sincerity and truth in politics argues that we should accept hypocrisy as a fact of politics without resigning ourselves to it or embracing it, drawing on the lessons of such thinkers as Hobbes, Mandeville, Jefferson, Bentham, Sigwick, and Orwell.
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