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Book SynopsisIllustrates ways in which actions can in fact be understood as public or private. This book discusses Diogenes the Cynic, who flouted conventions about what should be public and what should be private by, among other things, masturbating in the Athenian marketplace.
Trade Review"A brief and scintillating exploration... Lively and provocative, it contains ... an impressive assortment of ideas, arguments, and themes... Too few philosophical works are a great pleasure to read. This is one of them."--Richard Kraut, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Both edifying and disquieting... Geuss's expositional skills make his tour through the classical world as enlightening as the conceptual distinctions which are its official destination."--Leif Wenar, Ethics "This book makes it possible to hope once again that philosophy could become political ... by using its own resources of genealogical investigation, analytic criticism, and conceptual reflection."--Christoph Menke, Die Zeit "A finely written and persuasive criticism of a pervasive current assumption."--James Warren, Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews
Table of ContentsPREFACE vii CHAPTER I. Introduction 1 CHAPTER II. Shamelessness and the Public World 12 CHAPTER III. Res Publica 3 CHAPTER IV. The Spiritual and the Private 55 CHAPTER V. Liberalism 75 CHAPTER VI. Conclusion 105 NOTES 115 REFERENCES 137 INDEX 145
