The Politics of Hypocrisy
Baruch Spinoza and Pierre Bayle on Hypocritical Conformity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6352189 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Gais (0000-0002-2360-5788, The Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 588-614 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0090591719886268 |
| OpenAlex | W2983590330 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Contemporary political theory has increasingly attended to the inevitability, and even advantage, of hypocrisy in liberal democratic politics, but less consideration has been given to the social and psychological repercussions of this ubiquitous phenomenon. This article recovers Baruch Spinoza and Pierre Bayle’s critiques of hypocritical conformity to demonstrate that their influential theories of toleration and freedom were shaped considerably by concerns with enforced conformity. Reframing Spinoza and Bayle as theorists of hypocrisy, moreover, suggests that recent redemptive accounts of hypocrisy in political theory overlook deeper and arguably more discerning anxieties about a politics characterized by hypocrisy, specifically the deleterious effects of social mistrust and psychological distress
Conformity · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Hypocrisy · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theory and Influence · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |