The cynic enlightenment
Subtitle: Diogenes in the salon
By: Louisa Shea.
Series: Parallax : re-visions of culture and society
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801893858
Subjects: Diogenes, -- d. ca. 323 B.C; Cynicism; Enlightenment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancient rascals : Diogenes of Sinope and the cynic tradition; title: Eighteenth-century cynicisms; title: Taming wild dogs : the polite education of Monsieur Diogène; title: Menippus on the loose, or Diderot's twin hounds; title: Diogenes' lost republic : from Philodemus to Wieland and Rousseau; title: "Français, encore un effort!" Sade's cynic republic; title: Theory turns cynical : Diogenes after the Frankfurt school; title: Cynicism and the dialectic of enlightenment; title: Mystic carnival : Sloterdijk's cynic enlightenment; title: Cynicism as critical vanguard : Foucault's last lecture course; title: Conclusion.