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

• Authors: Sokolová Juliana

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.

Keywords

EN

ANCIENT CYNICISM; CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY; ETHICS; EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY; FOUCAULT MICHEL; LIFE; MODERNITY; PARRHESIA; STYLES OF EXISTENCE; TRUTH

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 558-570
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sokolová Juliana

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

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA097314