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Plutarch's Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum

an interpretation with commentary

2011 || Hardcover || G. Roskam || Universitaire Pers Leuven

The question of the political relevance of philosophy, and of the role which the philosopher should play in the government of his state, was often discussed in Antiquity. Plato’s ideal of the philosopher-king is well-known, but was precisely his failure to realise his political ideal in Syracuse not the best argument against the philosopher’s political engagement? Nevertheless, Plato’s ideal remained attractive for later Greek thinkers. This is illustrated, for instance, by one of Plutarch...

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Sfar so far / druk 1

identity, history, fantasy, and mimesis in Joann Sfar s graphic novels

2014 || Paperback || Fabrice Leroy || Universitaire Pers Leuven

Includes an in-depth interview with French cartoonist Joann Sfar.

'Sfar So Far' is the first monograph in any language devoted to the graphic novels of Joann Sfar, an artist whose abundant and innovative work has profoundly marked the contemporary French comics scene. This essay examines how, over the past two decades, Sfar has constructed an idiosyncratic universe with its own thematic and stylistic recurrences: a playful drafting style, contrasting with the thoughtful introduction of histor...

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Lieven Gevaert Series Allan sekula ship of fools; the Dockers museum

ship of fools; the Dockers'museum

2015 || Paperback || Hilde Van Gelder || Universitaire Pers Leuven

Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks.

Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum is the project on which the US artist and writer Allan Sekula worked during the last three years of his life (2010-2013). The work consists, first, of a corpus of thirty-three framed photographs and two slide projections of in total over one hundred images, all made by the artist (Ship of Fools); second, it contains a gigantic collection of various objects, graphic images, postcards,...