UniversityOfChelm
The book is "On Bullshit" by Harry G. Frankfurt.
Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford (C) 2005
Frankfurt is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton U. His
books include
- The Reasons of Love (Princeton)
- Necessity,Volition, and Love
- The Importance of What We Care About
I have a nice little hard bound copy consisting of about 67 roughly four by six inch pages.
Arts and Letters Daily had a link to an article in Slate about it.
Here it is.
on B.S.
Frankfurt mentions only one other work of note,
The Prevalence of Humbug by Max Black (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985)
Black give a number of synonyms for humbug, including the following:
- balderdash
- claptrap
- hokum
- drivel
- buncombe
- imposture
- quackery