On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt · 2005
A Princeton philosopher's 67-page treatise on why bullshit is more dangerous than lying. Tiny book, enormous idea.
The case against
Sixty-seven pages because the publisher set big margins; the argument fits in ten. Frankfurt defines his term, distinguishes it from lying, and stops, right where the interesting questions begin: why bullshit proliferates, what it does to institutions, how to resist it. You finish in an hour with one sharpened distinction and the sense of an introduction to a book nobody wrote.
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