On Lying and Politics
Hannah Arendt
Broschiertes Buch

On Lying and Politics

A Library of America Special Publication

Mitarbeit: Bromwich, David
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More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David BromwichNo one, Hannah Arendt observed, has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue. But why do politicians lie? What is the relationship between political lies and self-delusion? And how much organized deceit can a democracy endure before it ceases to function?Fifty years ago, the century s greatest political theorist turned her focus to these essential questions in two seminal essays, brought together here for the first time. He...