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The Cynic's Month: On Money: The Philosophical Life Series
Paperback
Series: The Cynic's Month
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 30 2026
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Most financial books tell you how to get more money. This one asks whether more money is actually what you're after.
The Cynic's Month: On Money is a thirty-day philosophical inquiry into the real roots of financial anxiety-using the ancient Cynic philosophy of Diogenes of Sinope as a lens for seeing modern economic life more clearly than most of us dare to look.
One question per day. One essay per question. No tips, no bullet points, no five-step frameworks. Just the kind of honest, penetrating examination that Cynic philosophy has always demanded-applied to the financial concerns that occupy more mental space than almost anything else in contemporary life.
The month moves through four weeks of deepening inquiry. The first examines what you actually need, stripped of what convention has decided you should need. The second looks at the anxiety itself-where it lives, what it's actually made of, and how much of it you've borrowed from other people's panic. The third names what has been quietly traded away in the pursuit of financial security. The fourth asks what it would look like to stop performing financial respectability and live, even partially, on your own terms.
By the end of thirty days, you will not have solved your financial situation. But you will see it differently-and seeing it differently, it turns out, changes more than you expect.
The Cynic's Month: On Money is part of The Cynic's Month Series, which applies the radical clarity of Cynic philosophy to the concerns that dominate contemporary life-money, work, loneliness, meaning, and others. Each volume stands completely alone. No philosophy background required, and no particular reading order needed. Pick up the concern that is most alive for you right now.
Readers who want to go deeper into Cynicism itself will find C Is For Cynicism: A 365-Day Guide to Living Authentically Without Social Approval-a full year's immersion in the philosophy behind this month.
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