Los cínicos

The colloquial and derogatory use that history has imposed on the word cynic has managed to bury the character and value of a philosophical movement that founded the first dissidents of thought and the claim of individual sovereignty against the law of power. But his legacy survives with vigor, and this book reconstructs the historical development, the discoveries and the personality of some Mediterranean thinkers who made, and never better said, school. The Cynics describes how the commonly accepted was challenged and how Cynical cosmopolitanism spread. How obscenity fulfilled the desire and need for provocation. How individualism claimed the only acceptable virtuous way and what idea of religion persisted in spite of everything. How the strange, cynical combination of shamelessness and integrity, unusual behavior and humanism was established. And in what way the influence of this philosophical movement crossed the ages of European culture to the present day.