– A dog as a thought leader
The Genevan Nicolas Tavaglione publishes a frolicking essay which was inspired by his four-legged friend: “Oneself like a dog”. We discover how a canine encourages us to look at life with another eye.
Michel Audétat
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Portrait of the Genevan philosopher and political scientist Nicolas Tavaglione and his Sicilian greyhound Italo, nicknamed Totor for the release of his book “Yourself like a dog”.
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The philosopher and the dog have been a pair since the dawn of time. From Greek Antiquity, there was a philosophical movement which took its name from the word “dog” (kuon): cynicism, of which the very free and scandalous Diogenes was the main spokesperson. For their part, comic book fans are undoubtedly thinking of the dog Kador, adopted by the Bidochon couple (Binet), who spend their time with their noses immersed in the works of Immanuel Kant. Having himself taught philosophy at the University of Geneva before becoming the deputy secretary general of the Department of Public Education (DIP), Nicolas Tavaglione takes his place in this long story with the book overflowing with affection which was written to him inspired by his four-legged friend: “Yourself like a dog”.
