Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Table of Contents IX
4. 1. Artful Immorality: Imprimis 1
5. 2. Ancient Cynicism 18
6. 3. The Close Readings
7. 3.1. Elegant Expediency: Machiavelli’s Il Principe (~1513) 76
8. 3.2. Acute Concinnity: Gracián’s Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (1647) 199
9. 3.3. A ‘Diogenes Redivivus’: Diderot’s Le Neveu De Rameau (~1774 / 1805 / 1891) 271
10. 3.4. Beyond Morality, Or Cynicism: Nietzsche’s Nachgelassene Fragmente (1884–1889) 341
11. 4. Morality’s Contingency 445
12. Scribal Abbreviations 453
13. Bibliography 455
14. Index 473