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."
Frankfurt, one of the world's most influential moral philosophers, attempts to build such a theory here.
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Princeton On Bullshit
Yale, Harvard... time to move on to Princeton in our non-exhaustive and random investigation of Ivy League obsessions. It seems that a twenty year old essay, On Bullshit, has been resurrected as a small book. This may actually be a valuable academic contribution to society. From the Amazon description:
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The research to coplete this book must have been mind boggeling. Sounds like someone with way to much time on their hands.
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