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A Slap in the Face, by William B. irvine - review

3 August 2013

9:00 AM

3 August 2013

9:00 AM

A Slap in the Face William B. Irvine

OUP, pp.253, £14.99, ISBN: 9780199934454

A friend of mine who works for the NHS has been told recently by a superior that his ‘attention to detail is bordering on the obsessive’. Aside from observing that an obsessive attention to detail might serve the health service well, this is an example of the kind of insult that Professor Irvine would ascribe either to low self-esteem or to narcissism (high self-esteem with no self-knowledge).

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