On Bullshit (edit title)

• Rated 4 stars

“The title says it all... that's all you're getting. Fun to read though if you have some time to kill.”

• Rated 1 stars

“Should have been called "The Bullshit book of Bullshit".
What people found in this book to have made it so popular I've no idea.”

• Rated 5 stars

“This is valuable short book of philosophy that is thoroughly contemporary. The author explores our use of the word "bullshit" and our corresponding need to have the word as an active part of our collective lives and selves.”

• Rated 2 stars

“Bleh.”

• Rated 5 stars

“Although the title may turn you off, it's actually a very good little essay and very ingenious. I wish this author wrote more stuff like this. It's a very small book and basically it's just an essay put into a small pamphlet book but it's hysterical and very educational.”

• Rated 5 stars

“No, this isn't Penn & Teller's famous Showtime program, but a serious look at bullshit by a philosophy professor. He starts by saying we have no clear understanding of what bullshit it because we have no theory for it. Then he attempts to construct one. A neat little book.”

• Rated 0 stars

“Didn't know 'Bullshit' can be written by a professor of philosophy. The accuracy of the information is irrelevant whilst "bullshitting"; whether true or false, "bullshit" is the intention to distort the information or to otherwise achieve a desirable outcome, making "bullshit" a close cousin to rhetoric. Harry Franfurt considers: "bulls**tters -- are fakers or phonies who
are attempting by what they say to manipulate the opinions and the
attitudes of those to whom they speak. What they care about
primarily, therefore, is whether what they say is effective in
accomplishing this manipulation. This to Frankfurt is a more
insidious threat than lying does to the conduct of civilised society.”

• Rated 3 stars

“This is a very scholarly essay about the ubiquity of bullshit. Sometimes you don't even realize you do it. Read it, your vocabulary will improve.”