Artful immorality - variants of cynicism : Machiavelli, Gracián, Diderot, Nietzsche /
'Cynicism' seems to be a viral word. Far from losing its function due to excessive use, it appears to be applied to almost anything deemed problematic - morally, societally, politically, culturally. This study aims at rendering scholarly expedient a term apparently innocent of any precise...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
De Gruyter,
2015.
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Colección: | WeltLiteraturen ;
Bd. 8. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- 1. Artful Immorality: Imprimis
- 2. Ancient Cynicism
- 3.1. Elegant Expediency: Machiavelli's Il Principe (~1513)
- 3.2. Acute Concinnity: Gracián's Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (1647)
- 3.3. A 'Diogenes Redivivus': Diderot's Le Neveu De Rameau (~1774 / 1805 / 1891)
- 3.4. Beyond Morality, Or Cynicism: Nietzsche's Nachgelassene Fragmente (1884-1889)
- 4. Morality's Contingency
- Scribal Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index.