The cynic enlightenment : Diogenes in the salon / Louisa Shea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shea, Louisa, 1974-

Series:

Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)

Parallax

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cynicism.

Diogenes, -approximately 323 B.C.

Diogenes.

Enlightenment.

Physical Description:

xx, 262 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Contents:

Ancient rascals : Diogenes of Sinope and the cynic tradition

Eighteenth-century cynicisms

Taming wild dogs : the polite education of Monsieur Diogène

Menippus on the loose, or Diderot's twin hounds

Diogenes' lost Republic : from Philodemus to Wieland and Rousseau

Français, encore un effort! : Sade's cynic republic

Theory turns cynical : Diogenes after the Frankfurt school

Cynicism and the dialectic of enlightenment

Mystic carnival : Sloterdijk's cynic enlightenment

Cynicism as critical vanguard : Foucault's last lecture course

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801893858

0801893852

OCLC:

317623192