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The cynic enlightenment [electronic resource] : Diogenes in the salon / Louisa Shea.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Shea, Louisa, 1974-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Series:Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
Subjects:
Diogenes, > -approximately 323 B.C.
Cynicism.
Enlightenment.
Table of 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.

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