Deception as a Sociocultural Code. Fiction and Fairy Tale
Journal: Contemporary Philosophical Research
Year: 2025

Aim . Assessment of the fiction as a kind of deception, taken in its negative connotations and as a phenomenon of opposition to truth as a value universality of social life. Methodology. The article presents a socio-philosophical analysis of deception in the series of relevant concepts (truth, lie, fiction, trickster) and as constants of social relations. Using phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches, it is shown that fiction as one of the practices of deception, on its own scale, is found i