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SUMMARY:A Diogenes for Our Times – Oudheid Café: Special Edition
DESCRIPTION:Book launch and Live podcast recording – in English \nOn January 5\, Mayflower Bookshop will host a book launch and live podcast event for Inger Kuin’s Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic (Basic Books\, 2025). The book is about the life and thought of Diogenes the Cynic\, an iconoclastic philosopher who pioneered a brash and free-thinking vision of life that inspired the philosophy of Stoicism. The author will be interviewed by podcaster and historian Timo Epping\, followed by a Q&A and book signing. \nIn his own day\, the ancient philosopher Diogenes the Cynic had a reputation for eccentricity\, heckling his fellow philosophers in the marketplace\, living in a clay pot\, and relieving himself in public. Since his death in 323 BCE\, devoted followers made him and his ideas famous the world over. But what we think we know about Diogenes remains distorted and sanitized. In Diogenes\, Inger Kuin scours all existing evidence of Diogenes and his followers to offer an in-depth account of Diogenes’ life and thought\, revealing a man whose innovative ideas about power\, death\, nature\, and the body have much to teach the contemporary world. He pioneered a vision of simplicity and autonomy in his day-to-day life\, stressing the importance of living in the here and now\, and of always thinking for oneself. Diogenes stands apart as history’s first recorded critic of slavery and a proud exile from polite society whose challenging thought proved foundational for the Stoics and their successors. \nDiogenes – “a rich\, engaging portrait of intellectual fearlessness” (Stacy Schiff\, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cleopatra) – rehabilitates Diogenes as a compelling thinker for the twenty-first century\, one who demands that we look at our society with fresh eyes and be unafraid of change. \nInger Kuin is an associate professor of classics at the University of Virginia. Born in the Netherlands\, she worked as a journalist before receiving an MA in philosophy from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD in classics from New York University. She divides her time between Rotterdam\, the Netherlands\, and Charlottesville\, Virginia. \nTimo Epping is an educator at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden and the host and producer of several popular podcasts on history and music. The Diogenes book launch event will be recorded for his podcast Oudheid. \nStart time 20:00\, doors open 19:30. This event will be in English. Admission: free. Mayflower Bookshop\, Breestraat 70\, Leiden. If you would like to pre-order a copy of Diogenes please send an email to info@mayflowerbookshop.nl.
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LOCATION:Mayflower Bookshop Leiden\, Breestraat 70\, Leiden
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