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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: dangerous life and ideas of Diogenes the Cynic
  title info:
    title: Diogène: l'antisocial. English
  name:
    name part: Roubineau, Jean-Manuel
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: DeBevoise, M. B.
    role:
      role term: translator.
  name:
    name part: Mitsis, Phillip
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Biographies
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: fre
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 130 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
  abstract: "Ancient philosophers are often contrasted with contemporary philosophers because they view philosophy not as a profession, but a way of life. None did so more uncompromisingly, however, than Diogenes the Cynic, who chided even Socrates for occasionally wearing sandals and maintaining a small household. Diogenes's espousal of extreme poverty combined with a talent for exhibitionism and propensity for offense was taken by some to be merely childish and grounded in a desire for fame, but by others as an ideal form of pure philosophical commitment. Beginning with his life as a banker's son in Sinope, this book traces the origins and effects of his exile and status as a foreigner in Athens and Corinth, his subsequent espousal of a life a poverty, and his development of a style of life that both he and others found comparable to a dog's in terms of its disregard for social norms and conventions. Much of Diogenes' practical philosophy took the form of his own distinctive bodily practices which were meant to reinforce Cynic freedom and self-sufficiency. By calling into question cultural conventions governing the body with respect to sexuality, athletics, clothing, hygiene, punishment, etc., his own dog-style life championed unrestrained free speech (parrhēsia), equality between the sexes, and a cosmopolitan view of the possibilities of a world rid of the evils caused by the pursuit of wealth, fame, and power. Throughout various historical periods, Diogenes has offered a fascinating alternative to conventional lives and served as a brave exemplar of absolute devotion to human freedom and equality"--
  table of contents: Diogenes, foreigner -- Rich as Diogenes -- Diogenes on the proper use of the body -- Diogenes, mentor.
  note: Jean-Manuel Roubineau ; translated by Malcolm DeBevoise ; foreword by Philip Mitsis.
  note: Originally published as Diogène: l'antisocial by © Presses Univeraitaires de France /Humensis, 2020.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Translated from the French.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Diogenes
      name part: -approximately 323 B.C
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Diogenes
      name part: -approximately 323 B.C
  subject:
    topic: Philosophers, Ancient
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Cynics (Greek philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Philosophes anciens
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Cyniques (Philosophie grecque)
  subject:
    topic: Cynics (Greek philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Philosophers, Ancient
  classification: B305.D44 R68 2023
  classification: 183/.4 B
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    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
    identifier: (DLC) 2023004889
    identifier: (OCoLC) 1346847018
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230211
    record change date: 20260318164732.0
    record identifier: in00005697567
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng