Abstract

URIBE BOTERO, Angela. THE PLACE OF IMPOSTURE IN SELF-DECEPTION: ON HITLER'S ARCHITECT. Univ. philos. [online]. 2014, vol.31, n.63, pp.167-180. ISSN 0120-5323.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.uph31-63.iaah.

In this article I make references to a set of statements made by Albert Speer -Hitler's architect-, about his situation in the Third Reich after the end of the Second World War. The heart of these statements is the term "self-deception". Taking into account of Speer's words, I emphasize on a feature which, as I see it, goes along with the process of self-deception: imposture. With the inclusion of imposture in the discussion on self-deception, I emphasize on the fact that it frequently takes place in a context made not only by the self-deceiver alone, but by others as well. In this sense, the presence of the others or what I want to call "the audience" is a significant part of what makes self-deception more or less notorious, more or less easy to occur.

Keywords : Hitler; Albert Speer.

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