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... consciousness, and the original kynical (literally, doglike ) protest by figures like Diogenes against dominant culture and philosophy. Like Diogenes who dissociated himself from distortions and half-­truths of his society, Ross Chambers embraced an ironic and self-­critical position with regard...

... of Adam; in case of an accident, I kept in mind Diogenes' remark to the young wrestler: "My son, have no fear, for I am not as wicked as it."10 Diderot brings to his hypothetical "accident" all the resources of his classical erudition, from Augustine's conception of edenic sexuality (in the state of grace...

... malheureux jusqu'aux exempla de Diogene, de Socrate et de Jesus. II expose les difficultes de ce mythe au Moyen Age et pendant la Renaissance, lorsque les poetes dependaient de mecenes, et devaient accepter l'idee que ces derniers reconnaitraient-et recompenseraient-Ies meilleurs d'entre eux. Malgre les...

... this tragedy to the cynic Diogenes, who, during war, and seeing all the men running around frantically, decided to roll his tub up and down the hill in order to be active.25 Belyard writes, seemingly without any irony whatever: a a24. According to Morin, "Nicolas Dehault, qui fut maire de 1582 1592, etait ne...

.... As Louisa Shea has shown, he tries on the figure of both Seneca and Diogenes, the cynic philosopher who does not DANIEL BREWER shy from speaking truth to power even at the risk of personal comfort and security. As Jean Seznec has shown, Diderot's relation to antiquity was deep and vital...

... of the book. Rabelais, being a major Renaissance author, would have merited his own chapter and further treatment. Krause analyzes Theleme, Diogenes (from theTiers Livre prologue), and the prologue to Pantagruel in the context of serialization, but these discussions are interspersed in chapters 1, 2, and 4...

..." published in the journal Diogene in 1970. In his most recent work, Struggle for Meaning, P. Hountondji recalls the shock he created by being dismissive of the sacrosanct African orature: "The readers," he writes, "were first of all surprised by the abrupt definition with which the article opened...

... communaute evangelique. Le prologue du Tiers Livre met en scene la situation de l'ecrivain dissident de 1545. Rabelais ne parle plus ici par la voix d'Alcofribas Nasier, Ie narrateur de ses reuvres des annees 1530, rnais bien comme "1'Autheur, M. Fran\ois Rabelais". Tel Diogene devant Ie spectacle des...

...» (Palissot, III, 9, 1111-1114). II s'agit la d'une allusion a Diogene, qui avait recommande a Aristippe de manger de la laitue : comme Ie philosophe cynique, Rousseau est associe a une forme de vie anticonformiste, et a l'idee d'un retour a la nature. Les idees de Rousseau font ainsi leur entree sur la scene...

... cynical than Diogenes and no longer believes in the existence of an honest man. No one possesses inner integrity or transparency of heart comparable to his own. His fellow men are merely automata, whose spirits are subject to the external laws of the plot just as matter is subject to the laws of motion...

... demontre son impact sur l'imagination et sa fecondite en se developpant. De meme Diogene, pour confondre un philosophe qui niait Ie mouvement, avait dedaigne de disputer, se contentant de Ie demontrer en marchant en long et en large devant son adversaire. Je distinguerai deux categories de cette...

... souligne pas sa deception; il veut plutot montrer au lecteur des aspects insolites non seulement du comportement mais aussi de la mentalite de la courtisane. Dans la Grece antique, Diogene appelait ces femmes "les reines des rois"36. En utilisant de nouveau ce processus de demystification, Brantome, tout...

... esloignez, OU j'eusse desire qu'on m'eust arrestee Pourquoy non, si Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Diogenes, Zenon, Antipater, tant d'hommes sages de la secte plus refroignee, abandonnerent bien leur pays, sans aucune occasion de s'en plaindre, et seulement pour la jouissance d'un autre air? (p. 955)16 Langius...

... his or her work as the product of a superior character, and therefore as an effective, reliable source of truth and moral guidance.2 Highlighting Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose notorious embrace of personal austerity earned him a reputation as a latter-day Diogenes, Mercier roots his views in ancient...

... ailleurs que pour la question du rire et de la misanthropie, Montaigne constitue un relais important (Les Essais, I, 50, « De Democrite et d'Heraclite qui substitue au couple de Democrite et Heraclite celui de Diogene et de Timon. ERASME ET LA BRUYERE Petit s'empresse de retorquer qu'Erasme n'etait...

...-102. - - - . « Science de l'homme et domination rationnelle : savoir ethnologique et politique indigene en Afrique coloniaIe fran<;aise. » Revue de synthese 3-4 (2000): 291-323. Levi-Strauss, Claude. « Diogene couche. » Les Temps modernes 110 (mars 1955): 1-34. Lusebrink, Hans-Jurgen. La Conquete de...

... Sophie Hawkes, Diogenes, vol.41, n° 4 (1993), p. 73-87. Kendall, Richard. "Edgar Degas, Poet; Paul Valery, Sculptor", dans From Rodin to Giacometti. Sculpture and Literature in France 1880-1950, sous la dire de Keith Aspley, Elizabeth Cowling et Peter Sharratt. Amsterdam: Rodopi, coIl. Textxet: Studies...