商品簡介
This book focuses on the hermeneutical nature of hypocrisy, particularly during the early modern period. It argues that hypocrisy's significance lies in the divide between interiority and exteriority and, on this basis, explores the tensions between text and speech, intention and action, individual conscience, and the public sphere. The unprecedented repressive campaigns led by both secular and religious authorities of the period exposed those tensions to full visibility. Analyzing them offers new perspectives on the quandaries concerning action that arose at the threshold of modernity and the ways human behavior is still interpreted today.
