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2011 | 66 | 6 | 558-570

Article title

ŠTÝLY JESTVOVANIA: PRAVDIVÝ ŽIVOT A INÝ SVET. NÁVRAT K ANTICKÉMU KYNIZMU V EURÓPSKEJ FILOZOFII 20. STOROČIA

Content

Title variants

EN
Styles of existence: True life and the other world. The reconsideration of the ancient Cynicism in the European philosophy of the 20th century

Languages of publication

SK

Abstracts

EN
The problem of true life has been central in the history of our philosophical and spiritual thought (Foucault), though it plays a much less important role in contemporary thought. The article presents a framework for understanding the comeback of philosophical interest in ancient Cynicism by situating it in the contemporary context of reconsidering the question of true life. The article explores the links between that comeback and the post-war debates about the modernity project and the Enlightenment's unfulfilled promises. The role played by the interpretations of ancient Cynicism in some recent attempts to rethink ethics and the project of social critique is examined as well. Through the prism of Michel Foucault's final lectures on the question of parrhésia, the article looks at the Cynic style of existence as an approach to truth alternative to Platonism and one that posits a wholly different relationship between truth and the other world.

Year

Volume

66

Issue

6

Pages

558-570

Physical description

Document type

ARTICLE

Contributors

  • Juliana Sokolova, M.A., Katedra teorie a dejin umenia, Fakulta umeni TU Kosice, Watsonova 4, 042 00 Kosice, Slovak Republic

References

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier
11SKAAAA097314

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.85c422f8-edce-3281-aa14-70355a612ab4
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