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On Bullshit Harry Frankfurt Princeton University 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.Frankfurt, one of the world's most influential moral philosophers, attempts to build such a theory here. With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, Frankfurt proceeds by exploring how bullshit and the related concept of humbug are distinct from lying.Harry Frankfurt was a member of the Department of Philosophy 1990-2002. His books include Demons, dreamers, and madmen;: The defense of reason in Descartes's Meditations; The Importance of What We Care About; Necessity, Volition, and Love; The Reasons of Love; On Bullshit; and On Truth.
On Bullshit is an essay by philosopher Harry Frankfurt.Originally published in the journal Raritan in 1986, the essay was republished as a separate volume in 2005 and became a nonfiction bestseller, spending twenty-seven weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list. In the essay, Frankfurt defines a theory of bullshit, defining the concept and analyzing its applications.Back in 2005, Princeton University Press published a slim, slickly-packaged book with a provocative title by a philosophy professor named Harry Frankfurt. The book was a reprint of a short essay by Frankfurt, who had originally placed the essay in a literary quarterly almost twenty years earlier and had published it in a book of essays two years later. The essay had acquired little notice.
On Bullshit is an essay by philosopher Harry Frankfurt. Originally published in the journal Raritan in 1986, the essay was republished as a separate volume in 2005 and became a nonfiction bestseller, spending twenty-seven weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list In the essay, Frankfurt sketches a theory of bullshit, defining the concept and analyzing its applications.
