The French Enlightenment and the Emergence of Modern Cynicism
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1107014646
ISBN-13
9781107014640
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 19th, 2012
Print length
236 Pages
Weight
440 grams
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23.40 x 16.10 x 1.10 cms
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Sharon A. Stanley analyzes cynicism from a political-theoretical perspective, arguing that cynicism isn't unique to our time and argues instead that the French philosophes reveal the possibility of a democratically hospitable form of cynicism.
Sharon A. Stanley analyzes cynicism from a political-theoretical perspective, arguing that cynicism isn''t unique to our time. Instead, she posits that cynicism emerged in the works of French Enlightenment philosophers, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot. She explains how eighteenth-century theories of epistemology, nature, sociability and commerce converged to form a recognizably modern form of cynicism, foreshadowing postmodernism. While recent scholarship and popular commentary have depicted cynicism as threatening to healthy democracies and political practices, Stanley argues instead that the French philosophes reveal the possibility of a democratically hospitable form of cynicism.
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