How is Lying to Oneself Possible? The Dialetheism Reading of Sartre’s Bad Faith
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21828052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nahum Brown (0000-0002-4904-2629, Chiang Mai University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-57 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Kritike An Online Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1908-7330 • E-ISSN: 1908-7330 |
| Publisher | Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25138/17.1.a2 |
| OpenAlex | W4383046809 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
One of the most important debates in Sartre scholarship today comes from the question, how is it possible to be in bad faith?In other words, how is self-deception possible, given that, in lying to ourselves, we are both the liar and the lied to at the same time?On the face of it, this sounds paradoxical, if not downright contradictory.This article aims to address this question (1) by analyzing secondary literature on Sartre that tries to prove that bad faith is not a contradictory concept and (2) by defending the "dialetheism reading" of bad faith, that is, the reading that views bad faith to be evidence for the true existence of contradictions
Bad faith · Deception · Epistemology · Faith · Linguistics · Lying · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Scholarship · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |