TOPICS: HISTORY OF LYING in Fall 2025 (HI2091B)

This course explores political manipulation, sexual deception, polite lies, theories of untruth, and totalitarian mass culture. It aims to encourage critical thinking and analysis in relation to visual and written sources. The

course will develop student skills as readers of philosophy, legal cases, historical writing, and literature. The course focuses for the most part on the theme of lying in Europe and the United States. Students are welcome to broaden the geographical scope of the course, or reach outside the chronology of the course, through their choice of a subject for their class presentation.