Roland Breeur, Lies – Imposture – Stupidity. Vilinius: Jonas ir Jokūbas 2019

HannahArendt. Net 10 (1):174 – 176 (2021)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

As the title suggests, Breeur’s project is to discuss three key ideas: lies, stupidity, and imposture. The book is organized into two parts of two chapters each, followed by an appendix. The individual chapters and sub-sections are well-written and philosophically sophisticated. However, the reader will be disappointed if they expect a sustained analysis of the relations among the book’s titular ideas or a unified account of their role in the breakdown of respect for truth more broadly. Breeur’s approach is more episodic, laying out valuable considerations and enticing formulations, but often breaking off before spelling out their full implications or connecting them to previous discussions in the book. His discussion clearly opens up these additional avenues of thought, but the task of going down them is left largely to the reader. This review briefly takes up each of Breeur’s themes: lies, stupidity, and imposture.

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive

    This entry is not archived by us. If you are the author and have permission from the publisher, we recommend that you archive it. Many publishers automatically grant permission to authors to archive pre-prints. By uploading a copy of your work, you will enable us to better index it, making it easier to find.

    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 102,190

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Self, Deception and Self-Deception in Philosophy.Robert C. Solomon - 2009 - In Clancy W. Martin (ed.), The philosophy of deception. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 15.
Self, Deception and Self-Deception in Philosophy.Robert C. Solomon - 2009 - In Clancy W. Martin (ed.), The philosophy of deception. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 15.
Slanted Truths: Theories of Political Deception.Kateri Mary Carmola - 1999 - Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley

Analytics

Added to PP
2021-04-20

Downloads
31 (#743,762)

6 months
5 (#1,066,262)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Andrew Spear
Grand Valley State University

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references