This site is dedicated to rescuing Cynicism from the trash-can of history; to restore it to its rightful place as an honorable philosophy and personal strategy for surviving in a hostile world. The periods in history when cynicism flourished were those where society had become morally bankrupt and ordinary people felt alienated and abandoned. Thoughts from a Tub provides a repository for quiet or noisy reflection to help fill the social and political vacuum in which we currently find ourselves.
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original 'occupation', 4th century b.c.
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Ian Cutler (alias En, fictional character in his wife Angela's first two novels) is author of:
- 'The Cynical Manager', Management Learning, Sage, 2000
- Cynicism from Diogenes to Dilbert, McFarland & Co., Inc., 2005
- 'Old Dogs New Tricks: a cynical legacy', Think, Royal Institute of Philosophy, 2006
- 'A Tale of Two Cynics: the philosophic dual between Jesus and the Woman from Syrophoenicia', The Philosophical Forum, Inc., New York, 2010
- 'On the Author of Christ and the Author of The Anti-Christ: Nietzsche's Diatribe on Paul and Affinity with Jesus', Philo, Centre for Enquiry, New York, 2012
- Jim Christy: A Vagabond Life, Feral House, 2019
- The Lives and Extraordinary Adventures of Fifteen Tramp Writers from the Golden Age of Vagabondage, Feral House, 2020