Böcker av Martin Wallen

Traces the many ways humans have thought about and pictured squids.

This interdisciplinary study focuses on the development of dog breeds in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It asks if we can engage with dogs in ways that allow them to remain dogs.

The title chosen by the author is derived from the distinction Socrates makes between his ideal society and the insalubrious regions to which he banishes the mimetic poets. The notion of health only occurs as a singularity. Diseases are plural. Why did Socrates use the polarity of health and disease so forcefully?