The making of modern cynicism /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Initroduction : From the man of reason to the cynical insider
- Diogenes of Sinope and philosophy as a way of life
- Diogenes the cynic as "counsellor" and malcontent in early modern England
- From rude cynics to "cynical revilers"
- The cynic unveiled : innocence, disenchantment, and rationalization in Rousseau
- Edmund Burke and the counter-enlightenment attack on the "philosopher of vanity"
- Cynicism and dandyism
- Epilogue : How not to talk about cynicism : a conclusion, and request for further discussion.