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Herakleitos and Diogenes
Author: Guy Davenport
Binding: Paperback
Published: 01 June, 1981
ISBN: 0912516364
$7.95
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Herakleitos and Diogenes
by: Guy Davenport
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History's first punk:
Before grunge, before punk, before monks renouncing this "evil world" for the purity of the desert, there was Diogenes. If Plato codified and, to some extent, "created" Western philosophy, then Diogenes lit a stink bomb at Plato's Academy and sent all the earnest young students scrambling for fresh air: what they didn't realize was that Diogenes WAS that fresh air. Listen to his dismissal of the great man of the West: "Plato winces when I track dust across his rugs: he knows that I'm walking on his vanity."... more info
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