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Fraud - The World of Ona'ah (Hardcover, New)
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Fraud - The World of Ona'ah (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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We can calculate financial fraud, but how do we measure bad faith?
How can we evaluate the words of the pharmaceutical industry or of
eco-scientific ideologies, or the subtle deception found in
political scheming? Henri Atlan sheds light on these questions
through the concept of "ona'ah," which in Hebrew refers to both
fraud in financial transactions and the verbal injury inflicted by
speech. The world of "ona'ah" is a world of an "in-between," where
the impossible purity of absolute Platonic truth gives way to a
more relative notion--the near-theft, the quasi-lie. Today it seems
that no discourse is safe from fraudulent excesses, be they
intentional or no. As both philosopher and biologist, Atlan works
on several registers. He forges links between the Talmud, the
Kabbalah, and the big questions of our time, multiplying the
bridges between science, philosophy, and current ethical dilemmas.
In a context of financial and moral crises that appear to be
weakening our democracies, Henri Atlan's work allows us to rethink
the status of fraud in the contemporary world.
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