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The Devil Wins: A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment Hardcover - 2015
by Dallas G. Denery
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"In this exquisitely written book, Denery draws on centuries of rumination on the moral issues surrounding lying to address the question of how we should live in a fallen world. The serpent in the Garden of Eden led humankind astray with lies. The Devil is the father of lies. Premodern sources agonized constantly over the act of lying. Denery not only superbly narrates the long history of this obsession, but also locates the conditions that reveal an Enlightenment shift toward a not entirely comfortable modernity."--William Chester Jordan, Princeton University
"Can God lie? Are women 'born liars'? These are just two of the questions Denery asks--and answers--in his wide-ranging, erudite study. Written in an engaging and accessible style, The Devil Wins sheds a new and fascinating light on a mendacious world stretching from the Book of Genesis to the dawn of the Enlightenment."--Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, author of Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378-1417
"This is a wonderful and beautifully written book. The fruit of extensive research, The Devil Wins traces the history of lying and deception through the medieval and early modern periods. Denery offers compelling and immensely significant arguments."--Ian P. Wei, author of Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris
"This is a marvelous book. Denery uses a fundamental question--when, if ever, is it acceptable to lie?--to explore a vast intellectual and historical terrain. In doing so, he gives us one of the most subtle and penetrating briefs I have read for the importance of medieval thought for modern efforts to understand ethics, politics, and conscience. I read this book with enormous delight."--Jonathan Sheehan, author of The Enlightenment Bible
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- Title The Devil Wins: A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment
- Author Dallas G. Denery
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition.
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, United Kingdom
- Date 2015-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780691163215 / 0691163219
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.1 in (24.38 x 16.26 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Philosophical
- Library of Congress subjects Truthfulness and falsehood
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014006311
- Dewey Decimal Code 177.309
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Citations
- Chronicle of Higher Education, 01/16/2015, Page 12
- Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/2014, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 01/05/2015, Page 0
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