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""A crisp, accessible, and engaging portrait of the enigmatic philosopher.""--Kirkus ""How did a contrary, clay-pot-dwelling, 4th century BC original plant an explosion in thought that would continue to detonate from the Stoics and the Cynics, to Erasmus, Rousseau, and Foucault? Inger Kuin returns Diogenes to his context, peeling away the myths, approaching her idiosyncratic subject on his own terms, acknowledging the myriad holes in the record, and probing a philosophy that--in lesser hands--might seem composed largely of perverse punch-lines. A rich, engaging portrait of intellectual fearlessness.""--Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra

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Inger N.I. Kuin is an assistant 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 NYU. She divides her time between Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Charlottesville, Virginia.

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