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Self-Deception's Puzzles and Processes - A Return to a Sartrean View (Hardcover)
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Self-Deception's Puzzles and Processes - A Return to a Sartrean View (Hardcover)
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The contemporary literature on self-deception was born out of
Jean-Paul Sartre's work on bad faith-lying to oneself. As time has
progressed, the conception of self-deception has moved further and
further away from Sartre's conception of bad faith. In
Self-Deception's Puzzles and Processes: A Return to a Sartrean
View, Jason Kido Lopez argues that this departure is a mistake and
that we should return to thinking about self-deception in a
Sartrean fashion, in which we are self-deceived when we
intentionally use the strategies and methods of interpersonal
deception on ourselves. Since literally tricking ourselves cannot
work-we will always see through our own self-deception, after
all-self-deception merely consists of the attempt to trick
ourselves in this way. Other scholars have rejected this notion of
self-deception historically, dismissing it as paradoxical. Lopez
argues first that it isn't paradoxical, and he further suggests
that moving away from this notion of self-deception has caused the
contemporary literature on the topic to be littered with disparate
and conflicting theories. Indeed, there are a great many ways to
avoid the allegedly paradoxical Sartrean notion of self-deception,
and the resulting plethora of accounts lead to a fragmented picture
of self-deception. If, however, the Sartrean view isn't
paradoxical, then there was no need for the host of contradictory
theories and most researchers on self-deception have missed what
was originally so intriguing about self-deception: that it, like
bad faith, is the process of literally trying to trick oneself into
believing what is false or unwarranted. Self-Deception's Puzzles
and Processes will be of great interest to students and scholars of
epistemology, philosophy of mind, psychology, and continental
philosophy, and to anyone else interested in the problems of
self-deception.
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