Diogenes the Dog-Man (Plato & Co.) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3037349336 ISBN 13: 9783037349335

Publisher: Diaphanes, 2017

Synopsis

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willing to consider life’s “big questions,” however strange or impractical. Plato & Co. introduces children—and curious grown-ups—to the lives and work of famous philosophers, from Socrates to Descartes, Einstein, Marx, and Wittgenstein. Each book in the series features an engaging—and often funny—story that presents basic tenets of philosophical thought alongside vibrant color illustrations.
           
In Diogenes the Dog-Man, the philosopher Diogenes not only admires the honesty of dogs, he has actually become one—sleeping, eating, and lifting his leg to pee wherever he chooses! Best of all, unlike humans, who dupe one another as to their true feelings, Diogenes the Dog-Man is free to bark his displeasure and even bite his adversaries in the calves—even if they happen to be Alexander the Great. Initially, the citizens gathered in the Agora think Diogenes is mad. Does he have rabies? But it soon becomes clear that we can all learn a thing or two from dogs about how to live a simple life.

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About the Author

Yan Marchand is a writer and philosopher who lives and works in Brest, where it rains dogs nearly every day. Vincent Sorel is an artist and illustrator and a contributor to the comic series Les Autres Gens. Anna Street is the translator for Plato & Co. She is a PhD candidate at Universite´ Paris 1 Panthe´on-Sorbonne and the University of Kent. Frédéric Morlot was a juggler as a child and dreamt of becoming an illusionist. Alas, he is today a mathematician at the École Polytechnique, Paris. Anne-Margot Ramstein is a French artist and illustrator whose work has appeared in Le Monde, among other publications.
 

Review

“Where existing philosophy books for children typically focus on surveys of ideas or broad historical overviews, the Plato & Co. books take a more ‘storied’ approach. They take isolated events in the lives of the philosophers to illustrate their theories, aiming to teach a philosophical theory through the experience of reading a traditional picture book.” (Publishers Weekly, on the Plato & Co. series)

“Great thinkers viewed from unusual angles.” (Kirkus Reviews, on the Plato & Co. series)

“Damn cool coffee table books.” (A. V. Club, on the Plato & Co. series)

About this edition

• Publisher: Diaphanes
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 3037349336
• ISBN 13: 9783037349335
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64
• Illustrator: Sorel Vincent