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03055aam a2200313 i 4500 001 3FD45910072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 200313s2020 enka b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2019957935 020 $a 9780198861935 020 $a 0198861931 035 $a (OCoLC)1144122164 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d OCLCQ $d YDXIT $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d L2U $d GZN $d GUA $d MUU $d DLC $d YBM $d JYJ $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PN49 $b .S563 2020 082 04 $a 801 $2 23 100 1 $a Small, Helen, $e author. 245 14 $a The function of cynicism at the present time / $c Helen Small. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xii, 264 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 8 $a 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-253) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The functions of cynicism -- On Nietzsche and doing less with cynicism -- Speech beyond toleration: moral controversialism (then and now) -- The freedom of criticism : Arnold's cynicisms -- Cosmopolitan cynicisms : George Eliot and Ford Madox Ford -- In praise of idleness? cynicism and the humanities -- Coda: Last and first things. 650 0 $a Cynicism in literature. 650 7 $a Cynicism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00886090 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021723.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3FD45910072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search