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The Ethics of the Lie

Author(s) : Jean-Michel Rabate

Reviews and Endorsements

'Jean-Michel Rabaté here proves himself to be a masterful docent of deception. In this marvelous new book, he leads us through a labyrinthine exhibition hall of lies - from the official and stately to the private and ignoble while disclosing through deft philosophical and psychoanalytic analyses the illicit
intercourse between truth-telling and lying that structures both our political reality and our intimate relations.'
- Joan Copjec, SUNY Buffalo

'The Ethics of the Lie" is magnificent: both witty and learned to real purpose. It mixes yellow press journalism with the most erudite philosophical analyses in an admirable effort to understand that paradoxical truth: we are all liars.'
- Colin McCabe, University of Pittsburgh

'A remarkable book that subtly explores the unconscious paradoxes underpinning our dealings with truth and lies. At the
same time, it critically revisits our various arts of dissimulation and exhibition, from ancient Greece to modern times, moving deftly between both sides of the Atlantic. This is an enthralling and entertaining study of self-deception."
- Elisabeth Roudinesco, author of "Jacques Lacan"

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, and has authored or edited more than thirty books on modernist authors, literary theory, art, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. Recent books include "1913: The Cradle of Modernism" (2007).