The genius of lies

Is asserting a theory and living the opposite a contradiction, a lie, madness or freedom? Rousseau wrote a treatise on education thanks to the abandonment of his five children, Kierkegaard composed religious texts while living as a libertine, Beauvoir founded the philosophy of feminism while enjoying a servile relationship with her American lover, Foucault exalted the courage of truth and organized the secrecy of his Aids, Deleuze hated travelling and became the philosopher of nomadism... Who are we when we think? Several, no doubt, as shown by the thinkers who invent multiple personalities for themselves through their theories. Instead of denouncing their errors or hypocrisy, François Noudelmann examines the most complex of lies - the lie to oneself - through the anxieties, fugues and metamorphoses of these double-I philosophers.” A magnificent text and a brilliant analysis of the distortions between the ide