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Explores the connection between epistemological and moral ""lying,"" interspersing a phenomenology of deceit with a continuing dialogue between the phenomenologist and one of her students.

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Author:   Alison Leigh Brown
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780791436738

ISBN 10:   079143673
Pages:   173
Publication Date:   29 January 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Philosophers' Eyes Other Eyes Closed-Eye Desiring Weeping, Hegel Finds a Body 2. Dissembling Eagle-Eyes: Nietzsche--Hegel Performing Identities: Lying Through Our Teeth Abjection: ""I'm Not Taking It Lying Down."" 3. Bodies in Disguise: The Naked Truth Secret Skin Commitment The Production of Meaning as Improvisational Theater Pretending Power: Re-representations The Lie of Omission Lying within Language Games Bodies in Disguise 4. Subjects of Deceit: A Phenomenology of Lying Concerning Subjects of Deceit A Phenomenology of Lying Moral Concerns Of Human Bondage and Unity Subjects of Deceit Notes Bibliography Index"

Reviews

""I like this book's 'performativity,' the way that the author demonstrates and enacts through the mixing of philosophical and literary genres the arguments regarding lying and deception. Professor Brown's methodology is itself a deep insight regarding the subjects of deceit and lying and readers will be charmed by her approach. She deals with a range of authors from Hegel to Gilles Deleuze to Judith Butler in a way that is way off what, by now, has become too much of a beaten track. Her approach is completely fresh and deserves wide recognition. The book is at the center of a whole series of debates in feminism, continental philosophy, Hegel, social theory, and what has lately been called 'performance studies.'"" -- Bill Martin, DePaul University at Chicago ""The great strength of this book is its willingness to investigate--not just at a theoretical level, but in its very style of writing--the metaphysical canon that postmodernism has taught us to put into question. To put metaphysics into question does not mean to do away with it entirely, but rather to expose the dimensions on which metaphysics rests. There is a real postmodern flavor about this entire project--its conception, execution, contents, and style. And that will put some readers off. But it has to be admitted that it is a new, audacious, and humorous intervention into the debate over postmodernism, which succeeds in posing fresh questions about old dilemmas in a way that is startling, unsettling, and original."" -- Tina Chanter, University of Memphis

I like this book's 'performativity,' the way that the author demonstrates and enacts through the mixing of philosophical and literary genres the arguments regarding lying and deception. Professor Brown's methodology is itself a deep insight regarding the subjects of deceit and lying and readers will be charmed by her approach. She deals with a range of authors from Hegel to Gilles Deleuze to Judith Butler in a way that is way off what, by now, has become too much of a beaten track. Her approach is completely fresh and deserves wide recognition. The book is at the center of a whole series of debates in feminism, continental philosophy, Hegel, social theory, and what has lately been called 'performance studies.' -- Bill Martin, DePaul University at Chicago The great strength of this book is its willingness to investigate--not just at a theoretical level, but in its very style of writing--the metaphysical canon that postmodernism has taught us to put into question. To put metaphysics into question does not mean to do away with it entirely, but rather to expose the dimensions on which metaphysics rests. There is a real postmodern flavor about this entire project--its conception, execution, contents, and style. And that will put some readers off. But it has to be admitted that it is a new, audacious, and humorous intervention into the debate over postmodernism, which succeeds in posing fresh questions about old dilemmas in a way that is startling, unsettling, and original. -- Tina Chanter, University of Memphis

Author Information

Alison Leigh Brown is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Women's Studies Department at Northern Arizona State University. She is the author of Fear, Truth, and Writing: From Paper Village to Electronic Community, also published by SUNY Press.

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