Author: HAVARDI, JEREMY
Title: Falling to Pieces - Making Sense of Self-Deception and the Divided Mind
Description: Lewes, East Sussex, The Book Guild. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 1857768353). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. A rigorous work of philosophy which takes as its subject one of the most common forms of irrational behaviour in human beings. Self-deception has been much written about from a philosophical point of view, but, according to the author, has never been adequately explained or rebutted. Through cogent analysis of key texts, he demonstrates why so many previous attempts to dismiss the notion of self-deception as being ontologically impossible fall short of explaining away a form of irrationality that is familiar to most of us. He also considers the significance of Freud's theories for the phenomenon, where psychology might appear to be the most obvious tool for explaining it. D4D. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Philosophy, Self Deception, Freud, Psychology, Irrational Behaviour 1857768353


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