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  title info:
    title: Cynicism from Diogenes to Dilbert
  name:
    name part: Cutler, Ian
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 227 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "The book focuses on significant periods of historical change, such as the Renaissance, and the historical cynics responsible for several seminal social ideas, including cosmopolitanism, asceticism, and parrhesia. The author claims that aspects of Greek cynicism are present in contemporary society, offering a positive strategy for living in a hostile world"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Classical foundations of cynicism -- Renaissance cynicism : the limits of cynicism -- Nietzschean cynicism : the link between the ancient and the modern forms -- Postmodern cynicism -- Return of the dog cynics : 20th century performance art -- Contemporary faces of cynicism : action, laughter and silence -- Cynical responses to the 21st century.
  note: Ian Cutler ; foreword by Yiannis Gabriel.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-219) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Cynicism
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Cynics (Greek philosophy)
  classification: HM1011 .C88 2005
  classification: 149
  identifier: 0786420936 (softcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2005016998
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 050616
    record change date: 20151102051551.0
    record identifier: in00002063063