Cynics The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy

Name: Cynics The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy
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ISBN: 9780520216457

ISBN-10: 0520216458

ISBN-13: 9780520216457

Edition: 1997

Authors: R. Bracht Branham, Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazï¿½

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This collection of essays--the first of its kind in English--brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The essays give a history of the movement as well as a state-of-the-art account of the literary, philosophical and cultural significance of Cynicism from antiquity to the present. Arguably the most original and influential branch of the Socratic tradition, Cynicism has become the focus of renewed scholarly interest in recent years, thanks to the work of Sloterdijk, Foucault, and Bakhtin, among others. The contributors to this volume--classicists, comparatists, and philosophers--draw on a variety of…

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/14/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 468
Size: 7.48" wide x 8.98" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



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