Volume 30, Number 5 · March 31, 1983
Kiss and Don't Tell
By Ian Hacking
Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation
by Sissela Bok
Pantheon, 332 pp., $16.95
Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life. Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them. Sissela Bok's book is unique, an encyclopedia of almost every imaginable kind of concealment.
Review, 3583 words
To read the full text of this piece, please choose one of the following options:
|
If you are already a subscriber to the Review's electronic edition, please sign in: |
To subscribe to the electronic edition, please press the button below. |
To purchase access to this article for $3, please press the button below. |