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050 00 $aPQ1815$bH63 1995
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100 1 $aHodgson, Richard G.,$d1950-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94094046
245 10 $aFalsehood disguised :$bunmasking the truth in La Rochefoucauld /$cRichard G. Hodgson.
260 $aWest Lafayette, Ind. :$bPurdue University Press,$c1995.
300 $axiii, 176 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aPurdue studies in Romance literatures ;$vv. 7
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tIntroduction: Truth and Falsehood in La Rochefoucauld --$gCh. 2.$tLa Rochefoucauld and the Baroque Worldview --$gCh. 3.$tTruth and Its Masks: In Search of l'Etre Vrai --$gCh. 4.$tSelf-love, Self-interest, Self-deception --$gCh. 5.$tA Theory of the Passions --$gCh. 6.$tVices and Virtues --$gCh. 7.$tDisguising the Truth from Others --$gCh. 8.$tUseful Lies: Truth, Honnetete, and the Social Contract --$gCh. 9.$tLa Rochefoucauld and Posterity: The Continuing Debate --$gCh. 10.$tConclusion: The Modernity of La Rochefoucauld.
520 $aFalsehood Disguised analyzes 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. It also explores his views on the subject in relation to what he sees as the extremely fragile foundations of the social contract.
520 8 $aIt examines these thorny ethical problems first in the context of the Baroque culture that directly influenced his thought and then in the light of the work of other moralists, including Gracian, Daniel Dyke, Descartes, and the Jansenists Blaise Pascal and Pierre Nicole.
520 8 $aThrough close textual analysis of La Rochefoucauld's writings, Richard Hodgson studies the moralist's use of metaphors such as the mask as well as his very personal concept of what constitutes an etre vrai, or genuine person. The study then traces the impact of La Rochefoucauld's ideas on thinkers from Vauvenargues and Chamfort to Nietzsche, Lautreamont, and Lacan. It concludes by suggesting reasons why La Rochefoucauld's concept of truth continues to have such enormous appeal to the modern reader.
600 10 $aLa Rochefoucauld, François,$cduc de,$d1613-1680.$tMaximes.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85053558
650 0 $aTruthfulness and falsehood in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008844
650 0 $aMaxims, French$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010101064
650 0 $aTruth in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008841
830 0 $aPurdue studies in Romance literatures ;$vv. 7.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92070290
852 00 $bglx$hPQ1815$i.H63 1995