How to Cause a Scandal

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  • How to Cause a Scandal Book Detail

  • Author : Laura Kipnis
  • Release Date : 2010-09-27
  • Publisher : Scribe Publications
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 225
  • ISBN 13 : 1921753412
  • File Size : 71,71 MB
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How to Cause a Scandal by Laura Kipnis PDF Summary

Book Description: We all relish a good scandal — the larger the figure (governor, judge) and more shocking the particulars (diapers, cigars), the better. But why do people feel compelled to act out their tangled psychodramas on the national stage, and why do we so enjoy watching them, hurling our condemnation while savouring every lurid detail? With ‘pointed daggers of prose’ (The New Yorker), Laura Kipnis examines contemporary downfall sagas to lay bare our psyche: what we desire, what we punish, and what we disavow. She delivers virtuoso analyses of four paradigmatic cases: a lovelorn astronaut, an unhinged judge, a venomous whistle-blower, and an over-imaginative memoirist. The motifs are classic — revenge, betrayal, ambition, madness — and the pitfalls are ones we all negotiate daily. After all, every one of us is a potential scandal in the making: failed self-knowledge and colossal self-deception — the necessary ingredients — are our collective plight. In How to Cause a Scandal, bad behaviour is the entry point for a brilliant cultural romp as well as an anti-civics lesson. ‘Shove your rules’, says scandal, and no doubt every upright citizen, deep within, cheers the transgression — as long as it’s someone else’s head on the block.

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