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Dominique Pagani talks about Diogenes in two sessions from summer 2020 devoted to the return to the logics of the subject. In the first, the guests study three painted and sculpted depictions of his encounter with Alexander1. He presents Diogenes as the one who calls himself "the dog": animality grounds his frugality, his self-sufficiency and the fact that he has no private life2. He stresses that Diogenes is the first to call himself a cosmopolitan. In the name of nature, he rejects the law of the city, and he searches for wise men with his lantern3. Later in the same session, he sees him as a figure of provocation, which he contrasts with popular art, which asks to be recognized4. In the second session, a painting showing Alexander visiting Diogenes comes up in a question5.
Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?Diogenes the Cynic, also known as Diogenes of Sinope, was an ancient Greek philosopher during the period of Classical Greece, and one of the founders of Cynicism. Renowned for his ascetic lifestyle and radical critiques of social conventions, he became a legendary figure whose life and teachings have been recounted, often through anecdote, in both antiquity and modernity. Diogenes advocated a return to nature, the renunciation of wealth, and introduced early ideas of cosmopolitanism by proclaiming himself a "citizen of the world". […]
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