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Deface the Currency: The Lost Dialogues of Diogenes

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Simplicity Institute
  • 14 x 21.6 x 0.7 cm

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"This is a creative re-enactment of the life, death and ideas of the most influential Cynic of antiquity, Diogenes of Sinope. Lost after 2500 years, the dialogues attributed to him are here recovered through informed historical re-imagination, and in a series of six 'acts' Samuel Alexander takes his protagonist from his marketplace teachings through to the final condemnation of his works, and execution of his person. In this quasi-Socratic tragedy, Diogenes' ideas of simplicity, moderation and natural living are too revolutionary for an oligarchical system to tolerate, and yet prove too resilient to be permanently silenced. Alexander is faithful to the spirit of ancient authors and deftly works in subtle allusions to ancient sources - yet writes ever with an eye to present problems. His Diogenes becomes an essential voice for the revolutionary and potentially apocalyptic transitions of our own time." - William Desmond, author of The Greek Praise of Poverty
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S M P L C T Y: Ecological Civilisation and the Will to ArtDeface the Currency: The Lost Dialogues of Diogenes

  • Title

    Deface the Currency: The Lost Dialogues of Diogenes

  • Author

    Samuel Alexander

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Simplicity Institute

  • Published

    September 2016

  • Weight

    141g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 0.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780994160621

  • ISBN-10

    0994160623

  • Eden Code

    4733827

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