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The French Enlightenment and the Emergence of Modern Cynicism (Paperback)
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The French Enlightenment and the Emergence of Modern Cynicism (Paperback)
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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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