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I AM GOING TO ask for your indulgence. What I am now going to offer you is no more than a stroll, an excursus, a wander. Imagine that we were able to work as a group or that we wanted to write a book on cynicism as a moral category in Western culture: how would we go about it? If I had to project a study of this kind in advance, this is more or less what I would say… Next week we will return to historical Cynicism (that of Antiquity), but now, having been rather stimulated by Cynicism over these last weeks, I felt like putting forward the following.
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Gros, F., Ewald, F., Fontana, A. (2011). 29 February 1984. In: Gros, F., Ewald, F., Fontana, A. (eds) The Courage of the Truth (The Government of Self and Others II). Michel Foucault. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230309104_10
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