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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Cynics"”.
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Aristotle and the Cynics on happiness and misfortune
… Aristotle and his contemporaries, the ancient Cynics. It is my thesis that fortune has a problematic status in relation to happiness in Aristotle’s ethical and political thought: Aristotle’s consideration of Solon’s dictum ‘Look to the end’ in NE I.10 reveals two problems for Aristotle’s …
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Cynical Futurities: A Critical Methodological Intervention Toward a Cynical Geography
… Black and Brown women function as contemporary Cynics using largely a Black Feminist theoretical framework. Drawing on biomythographies written by Black and Brown women, I future a Cynical discursive tradition in which the cynic is known by a different name.
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Changes in Resident Perceptions Over Time: A Theoretical Examination of a Mega-Event
… resulting in three clusters: Supporters, Cynics, and Realists. Proximity to the main event location also was evaluated since this variable has had mixed results in previous resident studies. Results showed that resident perceptions varied over time, thus providing support for monitoring …
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The ISS on Campus: The Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1905-1921
… that is still very much alive- the rhetoric of cynics and disappointed radicals notwithstanding.</p>
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For King and Country: Reconsidering the Great War Soldier in Britain, 1914-1945
… Wars. Rather than being a generation of detached cynics who lost faith in fighting for king and country, many veterans actively sought ways to contribute when their country was once again at war.</p> <p>This study examines soldiers who served on the Western Front in the Great War and went on to …
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Determinants of commitment in the professional football club/shirt sponsor dyad
… commitment types (Calculators and Commercials, Cynics and Short-Termers, Carers and Communals, and Innocents and Indifferents). In the light of these findings, the study concludes by examining issues and implications for academics, practitioners and researchers.
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Representations of ancient Cynicism in French texts, 1546-1615
… and anecdotes. The tradition presents the Cynics, and particularly Diogenes of Sinope, turning their lives into humorous and scandalous philosophical performances. By focusing on prima facie representations of Cynicism, I show how early modern writers understood and used Cynic performance …
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Something Wicked: Witches and Rhetorics of Resistance
… dangerous and clamorous. Like the ancient Cynics before them, spellcasting by witches/heretical magi is a form of parrhesia – an expression of truth telling that exposes the simulacra of absolute order conjured by the state. This, in turn, can inspire imagination, fantasy, and invention of …
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Becoming Good Europeans? Globality, the EU and the Potential to Realize Nietzsche's Idea of Europe
… use of masks), and finally, from the ancient cynics, the concept of <em>parrhesia</em> (fearless speech in mocking ascetic values). These practices support the necessary perspectivalist stance toward all truth claims to radically affirm the chaos of becoming. The adherents of such an …
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Dio Chrysostom: a Philosopher in Civic Space
This thesis argues that Dio Chrysostom’s self-identification as a philosopher mattered a great deal more than what previous scholarship had suggested. Against the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of the first two centuries CE, it is argued that Dio had deliberately chosen to identify as a …
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A Sceptical Aesthetics of Existence: The Case of Michel Foucault
A Sceptical Aesthetics of Existence: The Case of Michel Foucault Emmanouil Simos (Hughes Hall) Michel Foucault's genealogical investigations constitute a specific historical discourse that challenges the metaphysical hypostatisation of concepts and methodological approaches as unique devices for …