On Bullshit & On Truth

[Mark Kohut]

Hear, hear, Here, Here...
 
I'm in line. I read On Bullshit and now I'm gonna read the other...
 
Thanks.

From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, May 6, 2012 5:36 PM
Subject: On Bullshit & On Truth

I’m sure most of you know that Harry Gordon Frankfurt,  an American
philosopher, published a paper, On Bullshit, a philosophical
investigation of the concept of "bullshit,"and that the paper was
published as a book and was a bestseller. Did you know he also wrote a
companion book, On Truth, which explores society's loss of
appreciation for truth? Like On BS On Truth is a small volume. It is
written with remarkable clarity and the prose style and logic are
simply delightful.  At one point, the author cites Spinoza; he
explains that Spinoza argued that the truth is bound to a love that
imposes rationality on us. This love makes us feel more alive because
we feel more fully ourselves. The world is full of confidence men, the
truth, our postmodern authors would have us believe, is fiction(s), so
play along and enjoy the game. Does playing make us feel more alive?
Or is postmodern fiction mere bullshit?
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