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The cynic enlightenment : Diogenes in the salon / Louisa Shea.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shea, Louisa, 1974-
- Series:
- Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
- Parallax : re-visions of culture and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cynicism.
- Enlightenment.
- Diogenes, -approximately 323 B.C.
- Diogenes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Featuring an important new perspective on both Enlightenment thought and its current scholarly reception, The Cynic Enlightenment will interest students and scholars of the Enlightenment and its intellectual legacy, 18th-century studies, literature, and philosophy.
- Contents:
- Ancient rascals : Diogenes of Sinope and the cynic tradition
- Eighteenth-century cynicisms
- Taming wild dogs : the polite education of Monsieur Diogene
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9706-8
- OCLC:
- 923195310
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