The devil wins : a history of lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment /
Is it ever acceptable to lie? This question plays a surprisingly important role in the story of Europe's transition from medieval to modern society. According to many historians, Europe became modern when Europeans began to lie-that is, when they began to argue that it is sometimes acceptable t...
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; The Devil Wins; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Is It Ever Acceptable to Lie?; PART ONE: Theologians Ask the Question; CHAPTER ONE. The Devil; Six Days and Two Sentences Later; The Devil and the Lie; Making Sense of Genesis 1, 2, and 3; The Devil's Lie from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages; The Devil's Lie from the Middle Ages to the Reformation; The Prince of This World; From Satan's Stratagems to Human Nature; CHAPTER TWO. God; Can God Lie?; On Lions, Fishhooks, and Mousetraps; Divine Deception and the Sacrament of Truth.
- Luther, Calvin, and the Hidden GodRené Descartes, Pierre Bayle, and the End of Divine Deception; CHATER THREE. Human Beings; Every Lie Is a Sin; Every Sin Is a Lie; Biblical Liars; Augustine among the Scholastics; Institutional Transformations; Equivocation, Mental Reservation, and Amphibology; From Pascal to Augustine and Beyond; PART TWO: Courtiers and Women Ask the Question; CHAPTER FOUR. Courtiers; Flatterers, Wheedlers, and Gossipmongers; Early Modern Uncertainty and Deception; Uncertainty and Skepticism in the Medieval Court; Entangled in Leviathan's Loins.
- Christine de Pizan and Just HypocrisyFrom Lies to Civility; Bernard Mandeville and the World Lies Built; CHAPTER FIVE. Women; Lessons about Lies; All about Eve, All about Women; The Biology of Feminine Deceit; Christine de Pizan, Misogyny, and Self-Knowledge; All Men Are Liars; Madeleine de Scudéry, the Salon, and the Pleasant Lie; CONCLUSION: The Lie Becomes Modern; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
