The Saving Lie: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages

by F.G. Bailey

This book explores the distinction between selflessness and self-interestedness, between acting for one's own advantage and acting, even when disadvantageous, for reasons of duty or conscience. This apparently straightforward contrast (exemplified in the difference between rational-choice models in economics and holistic models in social anthropology) is a source of confusion. This is so, F. G. Bailey argues, because people polarize and essentialize...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812237307
• ISBN13: 9780812237306
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"