Harry G Frankfurt
1) On bullshit
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Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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"A #1 New York Times Bestseller" "Harry G. Frankfurt, Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecturer, American Council of Learned Societies" "Winner of the Bestseller Award in Philosophy, The Book Standard" Harry G. Frankfurt (1929–2023) was professor of philosophy emeritus at Princeton University. His books include On Inequality, The Reasons of Love, and Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen (all Princeton).
The #1 New York Times bestseller that explains why bullshit...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Harry G. Frankfurt, 2017 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecturer, American Council of Learned Societies" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016" Harry G. Frankfurt (1929–2023) was professor of philosophy emeritus at Princeton University. His books include the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, The Reasons of Love, and Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen (all Princeton).
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit,...
3) On truth
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect. Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some people (professional thinkers) won't even acknowledge "true" and "false" as meaningful categories, and even those who claim to love truth cause the rest of us to wonder whether...