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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2003. This book is about the intrusive fear that we may not be what we appear to be, or worse, that we may be only what we appear to be and nothing more.
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This book is about the intrusive fear that we may not be what we appear to be, or worse, that we may be only what we appear to be and nothing more. It is concerned with the worry of being exposed as frauds in our profession, cads in our love lives, as less than virtuously motivated actors when we are being agreeable, charitable, or decent. Why do we so often mistrust the motives of our own deeds, thinking them fake, though the beneficiary of them gives us full credit? Much of this book deals with that self-tormenting self-consciousness. It is about roles and identity, discussing our engagement in the roles we play, our doubts about our identities amidst this flux of roles, and thus about anxieties of authenticity.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: split in two
2. Hypocrisy and Jesus
3. Anti-hypocrisy: looking bad in order to be
good
4. Virtues with natural immunities to hypocrisy
5. Naked truth: hey, wanna...?
6. In divine services and other ritualized
performances
7. Say it like you mean it: mandatory faking
and apology
8. Flattery and praise
9. Hoist with his own petard
10. The self, the double, and the sense of self
11. At the core at last: the primordial Jew
12. Passing and wishing you were what you are
not
13. Authentic moments with the beautiful and
sublime?
14. The alchemist: role as addiction
15. 'I love you': taking a bullet vs. biting one
16. Boys crying and girls playing dumb
17. Acting our roles: mimicry, makeup, and pills
18. False (im)modesty
19. Caught in the act
Afterword.
