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11. Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 272.
12. Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 92.
13. Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 113.
14. Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 252.
15. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, or How to Philosophize with a Hammer in The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and Other Writings, ed. Aaron Ridley and Judith Norman, trans. Judith Norman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 157.
16. See Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 273–74.
17. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 17.
18. Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 228.
19. Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 232.
20. Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 229.
Chapter 3
1. Pontoffel Pock and His Magic Piano/Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? (TV 1980), Seuss Celebration (DVD: Universal Studios). Further references will occur in the text as (Pock).
2. See Karl Marx, “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts,” in Marx: Early Political Writings, ed. and trans. Joseph O’Malley with Richard A. Davis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
3. Karl Marx, “Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte,” in Marx/Engels Gesamstausgabe (MEGA), eventually 114 conceptual volumes. Erste Abteilung, Band 2 (Berlin: Dietz, 1972), 369.
4. G. W. F. Hegel, Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, trans. Bernard Bosanquet, ed. Michael Inwood (New York: Penguin Books, 1993), 36.
5. Karl Marx, “Ökonomsiche Studien (Exzerpte),” in Marx/Engels Gesamstausgabe (MEGA), eventually 114 conceptual volumes. Erste Abteilung, Band 3 (Berlin: Dietz, 1972), 549.
6. Karl Marx, “The German Ideology” in Marx: Early Political Writings, ed. and trans. Joseph O’Malley with Richard A. Davis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 142.
7. Marx, “The German Ideology” in Marx: Early Political Writings, 86.
8. See Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (New York: Owl Books, 1990), 67.
9. See Fromm, The Sane Society, chapter 3, A–E.
10. See Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom (New York: Owl Books, 1994), chapter 4.
11. Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason (New York: Oxford University Press, 1947), 141.
12. Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, trans. John Cumming (New York: Herder and Herder, 1972), 137.
13. The rash of “depression” may be more illustrative of the fact that society is not meeting people’s needs than that there is something wrong with people.
14. Theodor Adorno, “Culture Industry Reconsidered” in The Adorno Reader, ed. Brian O’Conner (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), 235.
Chapter 4
1. David Abel, “Secret Life Steals a Promising Future,” Boston Globe, January 24, 2004, www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/01/24/secret_life_steals_a_promising_future/ (May 20, 2010).
2. Plato, Apology in Five Dialogues, trans. G. M. A. Grube (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1981), 31 (26c).
3. Plato, Apology, 32–33 (27c–d).
4. See, for example: Bullshit and Philosophy, ed. Gary L. Hardcastle and George A. Reisch (Chicago: Open Court, 2006); also, Kimberly A. Blessing and Joseph J. Marren, “Bullshit and Political Spin: Is the Medium the Massage?,” and Andrew Sneddon, “Bullshitting Bullshitters and the Bullshit They Say,” in The Daily Show and Philosophy, ed. Jason Holt (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2007).
5. Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005), 61.
6. Lying is a narrower concept than deception, since lying in some way involves propositions, spoken or written, while one can deceive in ways that do not involve assertions at all (e.g., wearing camouflage). Both concepts, though, are rife with philosophical perplexities, and coming up with uncontroversial definitions of either is a difficult task. For a nice overview and bibliography for further research, see James Edwin Mahon, “The Definition of Lying and Deception,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, plato.stanford
.edu/entries/lying-definition/ (May 20, 2010).
7. If one does not include honestly representing one’s intellectual process and product to others as I do in (5), then a liar could even be said to have intellectual