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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Helen Small (Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.80cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780198861935ISBN 10: 0198861931 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 29 June 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Function of Cynicism 1: On Nietzsche and Doing Less with Cynicism 2: Speech beyond Toleration: Moral Controversialism Then and Now (Mill v. Carlyle) 3: The Freedom of Criticism: Arnold's Cynicisms 4: Cosmopolitan Cynicisms: George Eliot and Ford Madox Ford 5: In Praise of Idleness? Cynicism and the Humanities (Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, Laura Kipnis) Coda: Last and First ThingsReviews[Professor Small] puts the breadth of her learning to good use in helping us understand that cynics great and small can serve an important role in tapping the walls of our social edifice for tell-tale signs of hollowness. * Daniel Akst, Wall Street Journal * Author InformationHelen Small is Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. She is the author of The Value of the Humanities (OUP, 2013) and The Long Life (OUP, 2007) (winner of the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism (2008) and the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (2008)), and editor of The Public Intellectual (Blackwell, 2002). She has written widely on literature and philosophy, nineteenth-century fiction and public moralism, and the relationship between the Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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