The Saving Lie: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages

by F.G. Bailey

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This book explores the distinction between selflessness and self-interestedness, between acting for one's own advantage and acting, even when disadvantageous, for reasons of duty or conscience. This apparently straightforward contrast (exemplified in the difference between rational-choice models in economics and holistic models in social anthropology) is a source of confusion. This is so, F. G. Bailey argues, because people polarize and essentialize...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812237307

ISBN13:9780812237306

Release Date:July 2003

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:1.09 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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