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"An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformityThe Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society's material excess, unexamined conventions, and even norms of politeness and thundered "No!" Diogenes, the most famous Cynic, wasn't shy about literally extending his middle finger to the world, expressing mock surprise that "most people go crazy over a finger." When asked why he was called Diogenes the Dog, he replied "because I fawn on those who give, I bark at those who don't, and I bite scoundrels." How to Say No is a delightful collection of brief ancient writings about Cynicism that captures all the outrageousness, wit, and wisdom of its remarkable cast of characters-from Diogenes in the fourth century BCE to the column-stander Symeon Stylites in late antiquity.With their "less is more" approach to life, the Cynics speak urgently to our world of climate change, economic uncertainty, and psychic malaise. Although the Cynics weren't writers, their memorable utterances and behavior were recorded by their admirers and detractors, and M. D. Usher offers fresh new translations of appealing selections from this body of writing-ranging from street sermons and repartee to biography and snapshots of Cynics in action.Complete with introductions to the volume and each selection as well as the original Greek and Latin on facing pages, this lively book demonstrates why the Cynics still retain their power to surprise us and make us laugh-and to make us think and question how we live"-- "Among the schools of philosophy in the Greco-Roman world, there was Stoicism, Epicureanism, Platonism, and Skepticism to name the most prominent and influential. There was however another "school" and that was known as Cynicism. The Cynics were not scholars or writers. Like a Jesus, or a Socrates, or a Buddha, they were oralists whose memorable utterances and actions were transmitted to posterity by admirers (and detractors). It is doubtful whether we can even justly call them philosophers, as they did not organize themselves into a school or possess a set of systematic doctrines. Their mode of life was a philosophy of doing. The Cynics were, to put it in contemporary terms, lifestylists and performance artists. The most famous Cynic, Diogenes of Sinope, threw out his bowl, as one less thing he needed, when he saw a young boy drinking with his hands. He also comically, when Alexander the Great asked what he could do for him, replied "Get out of my sun" making clear the young conqueror had nothing to offer him. And yet the Cynics, as Mark Usher aims to show in this collection, did purvey some core values that distinguished them in their own time and recommends them to ours. Indeed, they speak with some urgency to our current predicaments involving climate change, socio-economic uncertainty, and psychic malaise. Their "less is more" approach to living anticipates our contemporary fashion for decluttering, minimalism, and simpler more natural ways of living. Like ancient Thoreaus, their disentanglement of our needs from our wants provides an object lesson in prioritizing truly human goods. The Cynics also exemplified the idea that subsistence lifestyles are sustainable lifestyles, and the principle behind their lived example gives the lie to the modern article of faith that economic development and growth are synonymous with quality of life. Finally, their embrace of cosmopolitanism-the Cynics coined the word-flies in the face of the resurgent nativism that threatens the stability of nations, including our own. The Cynics championed their positions on the grounds that each of them accorded with a state of affairs found in Nature. Their appeal to the example of non-human agents, animals in particular, is highly instructive as it validates the intrinsic worth of the non-human world more broadly, foreshadowing thereby a central tenet of modern environmental philosophy. Taken as a whole, this volume will aim to recover the Cynic ways of thinking and living and refurbish them and make them relevant for our modern, beleaguered world"--

Cynics (Greek philosophy) --- Cynicism. --- Anecdote. --- Awareness. --- Axis powers. --- Beech. --- Behavior. --- Borysthenes. --- Catamite. --- Chicory. --- Clothing. --- Cornelius Nepos. --- Cowardice. --- Crates of Thebes. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Cuisine. --- Cynic epistles. --- Cynicism (contemporary). --- Cynicism (philosophy). --- De Beneficiis. --- Decision-making. --- Degrowth. --- Demagogue. --- Demetrius the Cynic. --- Demonax. --- Diogenes of Sinope. --- Disgust. --- Doctrine. --- Drought. --- Earthenware. --- Eclecticism. --- Epicurus. --- Epistle. --- Essay. --- Explanation. --- Externality. --- Forehead. --- Frugality. --- Gauls. --- Good and evil. --- Greek Philosophy. --- Greek War of Independence. --- Hairstyle. --- Hassle. --- Hinge. --- Household. --- Husk. --- Iamblichus. --- Ioannis Metaxas. --- Know thyself. --- Laziness. --- Lentil. --- Lettuce. --- Malaise. --- Martyr. --- Meletus. --- Miscellany. --- Modern Greek. --- Multitude. --- Mussel. --- Nativism (politics). --- Nausea. --- Nickname. --- Noose. --- Nudity. --- Onesicritus. --- Perversion. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Piety. --- Platonism. --- Potentate. --- Prediction. --- Prejudice. --- Proverb. --- Pyre. --- Raw material. --- Reason. --- Rebuttal. --- Reputation. --- Sake. --- Self-esteem. --- Sensibility. --- Silenus. --- Skepticism. --- Sobriety. --- Stupidity. --- Superstition. --- Supplication. --- Syllogism. --- Temperament. --- The unexamined life is not worth living. --- Theodoret. --- Theology. --- Thought. --- Treatise. --- Uncertainty. --- Utterance. --- Violence. --- Wealth. --- Worship.

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In this book Juan R. I. Cole challenges traditional elite-centered conceptions of the conflict that led to the British occupation of Egypt in September 1882. For a year before the British intervened, Egypt's viceregal government and the country's influential European community had been locked in a struggle with the nationalist supporters of General Ahmad al-`Urabi. Although most Western observers still see the `Urabi movement as a "revolt" of junior military officers with only limited support among the Egyptian people, Cole maintains that it was a broadly based social revolution hardly underway when it was cut off by the British. While arguing this fresh point of view, he also proposes a theory of revolutions against informal or neocolonial empires, drawing parallels between Egypt in 1882, the Boxer Rebellion in China, and the Islamic Revolution in modern Iran. In a thorough examination of the changing Egyptian political culture from 1858 through the `Urabi episode, Cole shows how various social strata--urban guilds, the intelligentsia, and village notables--became "revolutionary." Addressing issues raised by such scholars as Barrington Moore and Theda Skocpol, his book combines four complementary approaches: social structure and its socioeconomic context, organization, ideology, and the ways in which unexpected conjunctures of events help drive a revolution.

Social classes --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- History --- ʻUrābī, Aḥmad, --- Egypt --- Aḥmad ʻArābī, --- Aḥmad ʻIrābī, --- Aḥmad ʻUrābī, --- ʻArābī, Aḥmad, --- ʻArabi Pasha, --- ʻIrābī, Aḥmad, --- Ourabi, Ahmad, --- Ourabi, Ahmed, --- ʻUrābī Pasha, --- أحمد عرابي --- عرابي، أحمد، --- عرابي، احمد --- عرابي، احمد، --- عرابى، أحمد، --- History of Africa --- anno 1800-1899 --- Abbasid Caliphate. --- Activism. --- Al-Ahram. --- Al-Mahdi. --- Algerian War. --- Ancien Régime. --- Anti-imperialism. --- Arabization. --- Banditry. --- Before the Revolution. --- Bourgeoisie. --- British Empire. --- Bureaucrat. --- Byzantine Empire. --- Caliphate. --- Capitalism. --- Censorship. --- Central Asia. --- Circassians. --- Colonialism. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Constitutionalist (UK). --- Corporatism. --- Counter-revolutionary. --- Decolonization. --- Despotism. --- Economic interventionism. --- Education in Egypt. --- Egyptian Government. --- Egyptian crisis (2011–14). --- Egyptian law. --- Egyptians. --- Elie Kedourie. --- Emir. --- English Revolution. --- Expansionism. --- Expatriate. --- Extraterritoriality. --- Foreign policy of the United States. --- From Time Immemorial. --- Ideology. --- Imperial Ambitions. --- Imperialism. --- Indian Rebellion of 1857. --- Infant industry. --- Insurgency. --- Intelligentsia. --- International relations. --- Iranian Revolution. --- Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani. --- Jingoism. --- Khedive. --- Labor aristocracy. --- Liberalism (book). --- Liberalism. --- Loan shark. --- Mercantilism. --- Middle East. --- Mirrors for princes. --- Nativism (politics). --- Neocolonialism. --- New Political Economy (journal). --- Newspaper. --- On Revolution. --- Orientalism. --- Ottoman Empire. --- Pan-Islamism. --- Peasant. --- Pogrom. --- Political revolution. --- Politics. --- Poll tax. --- Populism. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Reformism. --- Revolution. --- Revolutionary movement. --- Ruhollah Khomeini. --- Salman Rushdie. --- Sayyid. --- Secularization. --- Social revolution. --- State within a state. --- States and Social Revolutions. --- Subaltern (postcolonialism). --- Suez Canal Company. --- Suez Crisis. --- Tanzimat. --- Tax collector. --- Tax. --- The Imperialism of Free Trade. --- Tyrant. --- Upper Egypt. --- Urban riots. --- Use tax. --- Usury. --- Warfare. --- Westernization. --- Young Turk Revolution. --- Zoroaster.

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Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. From the first interracial screen kiss of 1903, through the Production Code's nearly thirty-year ban on depictions of "miscegenation," to the contemplation of mixed marriage in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), this book demonstrates a long, popular, yet underexamined record of cultural fantasy at the movies. With ambitious new readings of well-known films like D.W. Griffith's 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation and of key forgotten films and censorship documents, Susan Courtney argues that dominant fantasies of miscegenation have had a profound impact on the form and content of American cinema. What does it mean, Courtney asks, that the image of the black rapist became a virtual cliché, while the sexual exploitation of black women by white men under slavery was perpetually repressed? What has this popular film legacy invited spectators to remember and forget? How has it shaped our conceptions of, and relationships to, race and gender? Richly illustrated with more than 140 images, Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation carefully attends to cinematic detail, revising theories of identity and spectatorship as it expands critical histories of race, sex, and film. Courtney's new research on the Production Code's miscegenation clause also makes an important contribution, inviting us to consider how that clause was routinely interpreted and applied, and with what effects.

Miscegenation in motion pictures. --- Amiri Baraka. --- An Affair. --- Anathema. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Anti-Catholicism. --- Anti-clericalism. --- Anti-miscegenation laws. --- Assassination. --- Brazen bull. --- Caricature. --- Castration. --- Censorship. --- Classical Hollywood cinema. --- Complicity. --- Controversy. --- Counterculture. --- Cowardice. --- Crime. --- Criticism of capitalism. --- Decolonization. --- Decoy (TV series). --- Disparagement. --- Exhibitionism. --- Exoticism. --- Falsity. --- Film criticism. --- Folly to Be Wise. --- Forced marriage. --- Frantz Fanon. --- Great Disappointment. --- Hamlet's Father. --- Harold and Maude. --- Hegemonic masculinity. --- Horror film. --- Hypocrisy. --- Incest. --- Incubus. --- Interdiction. --- Interracial marriage. --- Intruder in the Dust. --- Knockouts. --- Ku Klux Klan. --- Libido. --- Loving v. Virginia. --- Marilyn Monroe. --- Marlon Brando. --- Masculinity. --- Melodrama. --- Miscegenation. --- Misogyny. --- Monster's Ball. --- Motion Picture Production Code. --- Nativism (politics). --- Oppression. --- Persecution. --- Phallocentrism. --- Populism. --- Pornography. --- Power Hungry (Fringe). --- Pre-Code Hollywood. --- Premarital sex. --- Pseudonym. --- Pseudoscience. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Racial segregation. --- Racialism. --- Racism. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Rape. --- Ridicule. --- Sadomasochism. --- Sentimentality. --- Sex comedy. --- Sexual Desire (book). --- Sexual Politics. --- Sexual assault. --- Sexual fantasy. --- Sexual harassment. --- Sexual obsessions. --- Sexual racism. --- Sexual violence. --- Slavery. --- Stunting (broadcasting). --- Subversion. --- Supercouple. --- Swinging (sexual practice). --- The Interpretation of Dreams. --- The Offence. --- The Political Unconscious. --- To Kill a Mockingbird. --- Touch of Evil. --- Uncle Tom. --- Undoing (psychology). --- Verisimilitude (fiction). --- Verisimilitude. --- War Paint. --- White people. --- Xenophobia. --- Yellow Peril.