商品簡介
Mayfield examines texts that he characterizes as among the highlights of Western literature since the Renaissance and as prime examples of cynicism. He begins by reviewing cynicism in antiquity, then offers close readings of elegant expedience in Machiavelli's Il Principe (~1513), acute concinnity in Gracian's Oraculo manuel y arte de prudencia (1647), a "Diogenes redivivus" in Diderot's Le Neveu de Rameau (~1774/1805/1891), and beyond morality or cynicism in Nietzsche's Nachgelassene Fragmente (1884-89). He concludes by exploring morality's contingency. The study served as his doctoral dissertation at Freie Universitat Berlin in September 2013. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
DS Mayfield, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany.
