On bullshit in cultural policy practice and research.
On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt Petter Naessan examines Harry Frankfurt’s famous little book On Bullshit. Harry Frankfurt, a moral philosopher, starts this little book with the following observation: “One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.” He then proceeds to develop a theoretical understanding.This is related to why there is an abundance of bullshit, Frankfurt claims, in the world. Bullshit is a course of option that is unavoidable when there are demands for agents to make seemingly-coherent assertions even when they are ignorant of the topic at hand. The historical context within which Frankfurt wrote this essay could be important.Harry Frankfurt's concept. In his essay On Bullshit (originally written in 1986, and published as a monograph in 2005), philosopher Harry Frankfurt of Princeton University characterizes bullshit as a form of falsehood distinct from lying. The liar, Frankfurt holds, knows and cares about the truth, but deliberately sets out to mislead instead of.
On bullshit in cultural policy practice and research: notes from the British case Eleonora Belfiore a a Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, Millburn House, Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7HS, UK Version of record first published: 14 Sep 2009.There are three points made throughout the essay that seem to be crucially important- the difference between lying and bullshitting, the question of why there is so much bullshit in society today, and an analysis of sincerity. Frankfurt begins his search for the meaning of bullshit by comparing it to the word “humbug,” and referencing the work The Prevalence of Humbug by Max Black. Black.
In the fall 1986 issue of Raritan, Frankfurt, a retired professor of philosophy at Princeton, took a whack at it in an essay titled “On Bullshit.” Frankfurt reprinted the essay two years later.
