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Falsehood Disguised by Richard G Hodgson

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Analyses La Rochefoucauld's ideas on truth and falsehood in the context of his views on self-love, on the passions, and on vice and virtue. The book also explores his views on the subject in relation to what he sees as the extremely fragile foundations of the social contract.

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Falsehood Disguised by Richard G Hodgson

The principal objective of this study is to elucidate La Rochefoucauld's concept of truth. This idea will be examined through close textual analysis of both the Maximes and Reflexions diverses. Although the Maximes have attracted considerable critical attention over the years, the Reflexions diverses have been thoroughly explored by only a few specialists, most recently by Jean Lafond. Modern criticism of la Rochefoucauld has focused on many issues, but no one has yet attempted to study his sometimes-enigmatic pronouncements concerning truth and the extraordinary lengths to which human beings are willing to go to disguise truth form others and especially form themselves.
Richard G. Hodgson is a professor of French at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
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ISBN 13 9781557532183
ISBN 10 1557532184
Title Falsehood Disguised
Author Richard G Hodgson
Series Purdue Studies In Romance Literatures
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Purdue University Press
Year published 1999-10-30
Number of pages 190
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