Abstract

Alongside the reprimands of Diogenes the Dog, the philosophy of bitterness of Émile Cioran and the neo-Cynicism of Peter Sloterdijk, there would be –in the author’s opinión- a Cynical lineage that speaks for itself, despite its “doctrinal” differences, of the survival until today of this true pariah of philosophy. The conjecture that follows is that the notion of animality is the core from which each of these “Cynical philosophies” is born. From this line, ancient Cynicism, or a good part of it, reappears in Sloterdijk’s neo-Cynicism, which is supplied with a technological critique related to the “animalistic” roots of Diogenes’ sect.