Philosophy has traditionally concerned itself with truth and the knowledge of truth, but in recent years these concerns have been undermined or redirected.
Systematic philosophy is said to be dead.
Thus epistemology, according to this popular series of views, is properly transformed into epistemologies. Throughout the book, a phenomenology of deceit is interspersed with a continuing dialogue between the phenomenologist and one of her students. I like this book's 'performativity,' the way that the author demonstrates and enacts through the mixing of philosophical and literary genres the arguments regarding lying and deception. Professor Brown's methodology is itself a deep insight regarding the subjects of deceit and lying and readers will be charmed by her approach. She deals with a range of authors from Hegel to Gilles Deleuze to Judith Butler in a way that is way off what, by now, has become too much of a beaten track.