Democratic Hypocrisy: Domination, Egalitarian Criticism and Apologetic Narratives

Acknowledgements\nAbout This Book\nContents\nAbout the Author\nList of Tables\n1 Introduction: Democratic Hypocrisy Versus Criticism in Times of Crisis\n	The Heroine of Our Age\n		Pseudocracy: The Power to Disarm Egalitarian Criticism\n		The Chapters of This Book\n	References\n2 The Ironic History of Hypocrisy\n	Displaced Acting\n	From the Art of Unveiling to the Deceptive Art of Acting\n		A Metaphor Destined to Take Over\n		Damned Hypocrisy!\n		Sovereign Hypocrisy\n		From Courts to Society: Apologists and Critics\n		The Wealth of Hypocrisy\n		Structural and Obsolete Hypocrisy\n	Too Cynical to Be Hypocritical?\n	References\n3 More Than Just a Lie. Psychological and Moral Hypocrisy: From the Masked Personality to Disguised Inconsistency\n	Braggarts, Flatterers, Preachers and Moralists: How Many Concepts of Hypocrisy Do We Need?\n	The Art of Disguising Personality: The Most Sociable of Vices\n	The Most Sociable of Vices Compared to Two Variants of Inauthenticity\n	The Art of Concealing Our Inconsistency: Moral Hypocrisy\n	Concealed Inconsistency, Changes of Mind and Compromise\n	Moral Boasters: The Art of Masking Personal Interests\n	The Art of Becoming One with one’s Moral Character (While Remaining Oneself)\n	When Criticism Becomes Hypocritical\n	How to Recognize and Why to Challenge Moral Hypocrisy\n	References\n4 Domination, Criticism and Democratic Hypocrisy\n	The Situation is Hopeless but not Serious: Between Democratic Apathy and Autocratic Passions\n	The Political Variants of Moral Hypocrisy\n	Democracy, Egalitarian Criticism and Domination\n	Better Safe Than Sorry: Pre-critique Democratic Hypocrisy\n	The Vicious Circle of Democratic Hypocrisy\n	Post-critique Democratic Hypocrisy: Feigning a Lack of Responsibility\n		Pretending not to be Able to Do Anything About It: The Simulation of Powerlessness\n		Pretending not to Know: Deliberate Ignorance\n		Justifying the Contested Injustice: Simulated Justice\n		Pretending to Have no Other Choice: Feigned Tragedy and Simulated Necessity\n	References\n5 Conclusions: Beyond the Criticism of Democratic Hypocrisy, Before Cynical Resignation\n	References\nReferences\nIndex