About this title: One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, as Harry Frankfurt writes, 'we have no theory' ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-13:9780691122946ISBN:0691122946
Description: Good. Dust Cover Missing. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Like New. Hardcover no dj. Not a first edition copy. 9th printing. Like new; no internal markings; has lost its "Brand New" shine but no obvious defects. No Dust Jacket Books-on-Books 92509. No remainder mark. In sealed plastic protection. 2005. Hardcover no dj. read more
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket; 2005. 0691122946. Dark blue cloth over boards cover with silver lettering. Very lightly used with mild signs of handling-unmarked.; Hardcover; Princeton University Press; Princeton; Tenth Printing; 16mo 6"-7" tall; 67 pages. read more
Edition: 1st Ed., 10th Printing, So Stated
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford
Date Published: 2005
Description: Fine/No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall A handsome copy bound in beige cloth covers. 67 pages. No wear. Minor soiloing back cover. Nice, tight, complete copy. read more
Edition: Audio Book edition
Binding: Audiobook (CD)
Publisher: Recorded Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781419353031ISBN:1419353039
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Former public library copy with library stamps/stickers. In plastic hardshell case. Disc, case in good condition. Unabridged; Narrated by George Wilson.; read more
"This is a perceptive little book by Harry Frankfurt about the phenomenon of BS. BS is an assertion or series of assertions about some state of affairs, but the person asserting the BS doesn't care whether what he or she is saying is true or false. Lying and BS are distinguished on the grounds that the person who is lying knows what he says is false. A BS artist, however, could actually say something true, but only accidentally and contrary to his real motives, which mainly involve trying to make himself look good, smart, competent, etc., to other folk. The author poses the question why it is that people are willing to tolerate so much BS in a way that they're not willing to tolerate lying. He suggests that some of it might have to do with living in a democratic society, where all people are expected to have an opinion about everything, but where, since it's impossible to have an informed opinion about everything, what people are more apt to do, in the absence of having anything to say, really, about some state of affairs, is BS."
"Not a book of earth-shaking significance, but it looks good on my shelf between Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style" and the directory of the Minnesota Legislature."
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