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ON BULLSHIT - HARRY G FRANKFURT LEINEN

A gem of psychological insight  social commentary  philosophical analysis  and good humor. This
is the work of an extraordinarily acute  attentive  and versatile philosopher who has succeeded
in addressing an audience comprised of both other philosophers and the general public on a
topic of considerable human interest in a characteristically wry and engaging way. It is one of
the most enjoyable and humanly illuminating short pieces of philosophy produced in the past
fifty years.--Raymond Geuss  University of Cambridge The most audacious of the ancient
alchemists desired to transmute lead into gold. They never succeeded. Who would have known that
they should have started not with a base metal  but with bullshit? Harry Frankfurt offers a
philosophical analysis of bullshit that is golden. The prose by turns employs irony  broad
humor  and tongue-in-cheek high seriousness while at the same time manages to have a rigorous
logical coherence that is always impressive. One leaves the essay not merely thinking it was a
delight. One leaves it realizing that one has engaged the accomplishment of a great analyst and
thinker.--William Chester Jordan  Professor of History  Princeton University

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