The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic Jean-Manuel Roubineau

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197666353
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197666357
• Author(s): Jean-Manuel Roubineau

An engaging look at the founder of one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece.

The ancient philosopher Diogenes–nicknamed “The Dog” and decried by Plato as a “Socrates gone mad”–was widely praised and idealized as much as he was mocked and vilified. A favorite subject of sculptors and painters since the Renaissance, his notoriety is equally due to his infamously eccentric behavior, scorn of conventions, and biting aphorisms, and to the role he played in the creation of the Cynic school, which flourished from the 4th century B.C. to the Christian era. In this book, Jean-Manuel Roubineau paints a new portrait of an atypical philosopher whose life left an indelible mark on the Western collective imagination and whose philosophy courses through various schools of thought well beyond antiquity.

Table contents:

Introduction
1. Diogenes, Foreigner
2. Rich as Diogenes
3. Diogenes, or the Proper Use of the Body
4. Diogenes, Mentor
Acknowledgements

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