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When a term is overused, it tends to fall out of fashion. Cynicism seems to be an exception. Its polytropic versatility apparently prevents any discontinuation
Artful Immorality
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'Cynicism' seems to be a viral word. Far from losing its function due to excessive use, it appears to be applied to almost anything deemed problematic morally,
Literary Cynics
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Focusing on work by Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, Literary Cynics explores the relationship between literature and cynicism to consider wh
Rhetoric and Contingency
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Human life is susceptible of changing suddenly, of shifting inadvertently, of appearing differently, of varying unpredictably, of being altered deliberately, of
Blumenberg’s Rhetoric
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Marking the 50th anniversary of one among this philosopher’s most distinguished pieces, Blumenberg’s Rhetoric proffers a decidedly diversified interaction w