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9783110438482, titled "Artful Immorality - Variants of Cynicism: Machiavelli, Gracián, Diderot, Nietzsche" | Walter De Gruyter Inc, August 28, 2015, cover price $140.00
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9780415003049, titled "Moral Powers: Normative Necessity in Language and History" | Routledge Kegan & Paul, July 1, 1988, cover price $65.00 | also contains Moral Powers: Normative Necessity in Language and History
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9780415002912, titled "Landmarks in Linguistic Thought: The Western Tradition from Socrates to Saussure" | Routledge, May 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | also contains Landmarks in Linguistic Thought: The Western Tradition from Socrates to Saussure | About this edition: This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in linguistics.
Product Description: Cynicism is a neglected subject for investigation in post-war British cultural history, perhaps due to its apparent omnipresence. Kieran Curran aims to rectify this omission by lucidly connecting together literature, music and film as common avatars of the cynic sensibility...read more
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9781137444349 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 24, 2014, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Cynicism is a neglected subject for investigation in post-war British cultural history, perhaps due to its apparent omnipresence.
Product Description: Call it burnout. Call it enlightenment. Call it whatever you like--it's plaguing the contemporary church. Andrew Byers calls it cynicism--the state we all too easily arrive at after passing through disillusionment. Too many saints in the making are having their wings clipped in this painful process...read more
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9780830836185 | Ivp Books, April 1, 2011, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Call it burnout.
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9780801893858 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, December 10, 2009, cover price $72.00
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9781906051006 | Gardners Books, September 1, 2007, cover price $5.00
Product Description: Once describing a life of exile, self-denial, physical rigor, and mastery of oneâs desires, cynicism now describes a life of political quietism, passivity, and moral indifference, representing not a weakening of ancient philosophic norms but rather their inversion...read more
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9780813926155 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 1, 2007, cover price $38.50 | About this edition: Once describing a life of exile, self-denial, physical rigor, and mastery of oneâs desires, cynicism now describes a life of political quietism, passivity, and moral indifference, representing not a weakening of ancient philosophic norms but rather their inversion.
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9780830833887 | Ivp Books, July 14, 2006, cover price $18.00
Product Description: "Rich in new and stimulating ideas, and based on the breadth of reading and depth of knowledge which its wide-ranging subject matter requires, The Greek Praise of Poverty argues impressively and cogently for a relocation of Cynic philosophy into the mainstream of Greek ideas on material prosperity, work, happiness, and power...read more
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9780268025816 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, February 1, 2006, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: "Rich in new and stimulating ideas, and based on the breadth of reading and depth of knowledge which its wide-ranging subject matter requires, The Greek Praise of Poverty argues impressively and cogently for a relocation of Cynic philosophy into the mainstream of Greek ideas on material prosperity, work, happiness, and power.
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9780268025823 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, February 1, 2006, cover price $27.00
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9780773464575 | Edwin Mellen Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $119.95
Product Description: Melancholic and introspective, ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time. A casualty of modernization? Or a product of postmodernism? In this original and provocative book, Timothy Bewes undertakes a descent into the modern cynical consciousness, and emerges with a critical assessment of the preoccupations of contemporary society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781859848265 | Verso Books, April 1, 1997, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Melancholic and introspective, ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time.
Paperback:
9781859841969 | Verso Books, April 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Melancholic and introspective, ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time.
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9781572300149 | Guilford Pubn, May 20, 1996, cover price $84.00
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9781572300347 | Guilford Pubn, May 20, 1996, cover price $39.00
Product Description: This book contributes a radical politics of community, one that engages with practical questions in the context of hypersecular, postmodern capitalism. Going beyond the bounds of the modern political spectrum of "left" and "right" (even while tunneling within these boundaries and questioning the very idea of the spectrum), Bill Martin moves from the possibilities of rethinking the socialist and Marxist projects, through recent debates on liberalism and communitarianism, the difficult issues of anti-Semitism in Marx and Marxism, and the legacy of Mao for revolutionary practice, to the practical issues raised by the Gulf War and its ideological aftermath and the 1992 uprisings in Los Angeles...read more
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9780791427941 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This book contributes a radical politics of community, one that engages with practical questions in the context of hypersecular, postmodern capitalism.
Product Description: This book contributes a radical politics of community, one that engages with practical questions in the context of hypersecular, postmodern capitalism. Going beyond the bounds of the modern political spectrum of "left" and "right" (even while tunneling within these boundaries and questioning the very idea of the spectrum), Bill Martin moves from the possibilities of rethinking the socialist and Marxist projects, through recent debates on liberalism and communitarianism, the difficult issues of anti-Semitism in Marx and Marxism, and the legacy of Mao for revolutionary practice, to the practical issues raised by the Gulf War and its ideological aftermath and the 1992 uprisings in Los Angeles...read more
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9780791427934 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $55.50 | About this edition: This book contributes a radical politics of community, one that engages with practical questions in the context of hypersecular, postmodern capitalism.
Product Description: In 1987, Professor Richard Stivers was the recipient of an Earhart Foundation research fellowship to undertake a study of American morality. This book is the result. It traces the intellectual history of American morality, from its European origins in the Middle Ages to the 1990s...read more
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9781557865328 | Blackwell Pub, August 1, 1994, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In 1987, Professor Richard Stivers was the recipient of an Earhart Foundation research fellowship to undertake a study of American morality.
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9781557865335 | Blackwell Pub, August 1, 1994, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: "The Culture of Cynicism" is the most wide-ranging and thought-provoking book yet written on American morality.
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9780415003049 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, July 1, 1988, cover price $65.00 | also contains Waiting for the One
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9780816615858 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, January 1, 1988, cover price $49.95
Paperback:
9780816615865 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, January 1, 1988, cover price $30.00
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