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The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time (Hardcover)
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Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from
conventional moral thought, casting doubt on the motives that guide
right conduct. When critics today complain that it is ubiquitous
but lacks the serious bite of classical Cynicism, they express
concern that it can now only be corrosively negative. The Function
of Cynicism at the Present Time takes a more balanced view.
Re-evaluating the role of cynicism in literature, cultural
criticism, and philosophy from 1840 to the present, it treats cynic
confrontationalism as a widely-employed credibility-check on the
promotion of moral ideals-with roots in human psychology. Helen
Small investigates how writers have engaged with Cynic traditions
of thought, and later more gestural styles of cynicism, to
re-calibrate dominant moral values, judgements of taste, and
political agreements. The argument develops through a series of
cynic challenges to accepted moral thinking: Friedrich Nietzsche on
morality; Thomas Carlyle v. J. S. Mill on the permissible limits of
moral provocation; Arnold on the freedom of criticism; George Eliot
and Ford Madox Ford on cosmopolitanism; Bertrand Russell, John
Dewey, and Laura Kipnis on the conditions of work in the
university. The Function of Cynicism treats topics of present-day
public concern: abrasive styles of public argument; debasing
challenges to conventional morality; free speech, moral
controversialism; the authority of reason and the limits of that
authority; nationalism and resistance to nationalism; and liberty
of expression as a core principle of the university.
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