Faking it

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 13
ONE Introduction: Split in Two......Page 15
TWO Hypocrisy and Jesus......Page 23
Ostentatious Alms......Page 25
Motes and Beams......Page 27
Stoning Adulterers......Page 28
Hypocrisy and Formalism......Page 30
Of Hairshirts......Page 34
Non–Self-Tormenting Virtue? Et in Arcadia Ego......Page 38
Putting Vanity to Good Use......Page 40
Courage and Faking It......Page 45
Politeness......Page 49
Self-Command: Sense, Sensibility, and Shallowness......Page 56
FIVE Naked Truth: Hey, Wanna F***?......Page 62
SIX  In Divine Services and Other Ritualized Performances......Page 72
Staying Focused during Prayer......Page 75
The Amidah......Page 82
Cynical Ceremony......Page 87
SEVEN Say It Like You Mean It: Mandatory Faking and Apology......Page 91
Accidents versus Intentional Wrongs......Page 92
Regret versus Remorse......Page 95
Making Faking Hurt......Page 97
Forgiveness and Punishment......Page 104
EIGHT Flattery and Praise......Page 110
Tainted Praise......Page 112
In Small Praise of Flattery......Page 118
NINE Hoist with His Own Petard......Page 123
Talking to Hamlet......Page 124
Ironists......Page 129
Experience: Becoming What You Pretend to Be......Page 132
TEN The Self, the Double, and the Sense of Self......Page 135
Stripping Off the Layers......Page 142
A Bowdlerized Jewish Joke......Page 146
The Jew at the Core of Christian Identity......Page 149
TWELVE Passing and Wishing You Were What You Are Not......Page 155
An American Tragicomedy......Page 157
Passing......Page 162
Phoniness by the Sea......Page 168
Anxious Experts......Page 172
Faking It in the Museum......Page 174
Postcards and Memories......Page 175
Elster’s Alchemies......Page 181
The Canon’s Yeoman......Page 184
FIFTEEN “I Love You”: Taking a Bullet versus Biting One......Page 192
It’s the Word “Love”......Page 193
Winding the Clock Once a Month......Page 196
SIXTEEN Boys Crying and Girls Playing Dumb......Page 200
Diderot and Actors......Page 209
Pretending versus Faking It......Page 214
Making Up Is Hard to Do, or Masking for It......Page 216
Surgical Masks......Page 221
EIGHTEEN False (Im)modesty......Page 225
False Modesty......Page 228
Self-Mockery and Frank Confessions......Page 230
NINETEEN Caught in the Act......Page 234
Faking Sleep......Page 235
Facing Those Who Know or You Fear Might Know......Page 238
Did You Know How Big You Blew It Back Then?......Page 243
Afterword......Page 246
Two. Hypocrisy and Jesus......Page 253
Three. Antihypocrisy......Page 256
Four. Virtues Naturally Immune to Hypocrisy......Page 257
Five. Naked Truth......Page 259
Six. In Divine Services and Other Ritualized Performances......Page 260
Seven. Say It Like You Mean It......Page 262
Eight. Flattery and Praise......Page 265
Nine. Hoist with His Own Petard......Page 266
Ten. The Self, the Double, and the Sense of Self......Page 267
Eleven. At the Core at Last......Page 269
Twelve. Passing and Wishing You Were What You Are Not......Page 271
Thirteen. Authentic Moments with the Beautiful and Sublime?......Page 273
Fourteen. The Alchemist......Page 274
Sixteen. Boys Crying and Girls Playing Dumb......Page 275
Seventeen. Acting our Roles......Page 276
Nineteen. Caught in the Act......Page 278
Afterword......Page 279
Works Cited......Page 280
Index......Page 293