Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: bullshit
Number of Pages: 67
Published: 2005-01-10
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0691122946
ISBN-13: 9780691122946
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, as Harry Frankfurt writes, "we have no theory."
Author: Stanley Bing
Publisher: HarperBusiness
Keywords: jobs, bullshit
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0060734795
ISBN-13: 9780060734794
The scholarly discipline of Bullshit Studies has blossomed in the last several years, fertilized by a number of critical works on the subject and the growing importance of the issue across a wide range of professions. Now, best-selling author and lifelong practitioner Stanley Bing enters the field with a comprehensive look at the many attractive jobs now available to those who are serious about their bullshit and prepared to dedicate their working life to it. What, Bing inquires, do a feng shui consultant, new media executive, wine steward, department store greeter, and Vice President of th
Authors:Harry G. Frankfurt, George Wilso,
Publisher: Recorded Book
Keywords: bullshit
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 1419348876
ISBN-13: 9781419348877
"One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit," Harry G. Frankfurt writes, in what must surely be the most eyebrow-raising opener in modern philosophical prose. "Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted." This compact little book, as pungent as the phenomenon it explores, attempts to articulate a theory of this contemporary scourge--what it is, what it does, and why there’s so much of it. The result is entertaining and enlightening in almost equal measure. It can’t be denied; part of th
Author: Nick Fly
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: memoir, city, suck, night, bullshit
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-09-17
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0393051390
ISBN-13: 9780393051391
"Devastating....Ranks with Frank Conroy’s Stop-Time."—Michael Cunningham "Sometimes I’d see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. But if I let him inside the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up." Nick Flynn met his father for the third time when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he’d received letters from this stranger, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison
Author: Nick Fly
Publisher: W. W. Norto
Keywords: memoir, city, suck, night, bullshit
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-09-12
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0393329402
ISBN-13: 9780393329407
"A stunningly beautiful new memoir . . . a near-perfect work of literature." Stephen Elliot, San Francisco Chronicle Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he’d received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his father onto the streets, into that shelter, and finally to each other. .
Author: Carl Alasko
Publisher: Tarcher
Keywords: destroy, relationships, stop, threatening, plague, bullshit, hidden, emotional
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-12-26
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1585426660
ISBN-13: 9781585426669
You know what your IQ* is. You may even know what your EIQ** is. But do you know what your EBSQ*** is? * INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT ** EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT *** EMOTIONAL BULLSHIT QUOTIENT An invisible plague is wreaking havoc on human relationships. What is this destructive force? Emotional Bullshit. In this groundbreaking book, clinical psychologist Dr. Carl Alasko contends that bullshit is everywhere and its getting stronger and more hazardous to our psychological well-being every day. From the highest precincts of commerce and politics to the most average, everyday conversations, we
Authors:Gary L. Hardcastle, George A. Reisch,
Publisher: Open Court
Keywords: philosophy, culture, popular, bullshit
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-10-25
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0812696115
ISBN-13: 9780812696110
Popular interest in bullshit and its near relative, truthiness is at an all-time high, but the subject has a rich philosophical history, with Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Kant all weighing in on the matter. Here, contemporary philosophers reflect on bullshit from epistemological, ethical, metaphysical, historical, and political points of view. Tackling questions including what is bullshit, what does it do, is it a passing fad, and can it ever be eliminated, the book is a guide and resource for the many who find bullshit worth pondering.
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