The Ethics of the Lie
Rabate, Jean-Michel / Verderber, Suzanne
Pinocchio knows: the unconscious knowledge of the conscious lie.From little white lies to the deepest, darkest ones, it is an accepted fact that we-like the boy who cried wolf-lie very often, at least three times a day. The thesis of this erudite and entertaining book is that lies are structured like paradoxes. Lying is a common social manifestation that is fraught with contradictions: we lie quite frequently, but we hate liars, and we detest ...