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From the Series Tuesday – Saturday

Marina Abramović, Ulay
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Marina Abramovic & Ulay, 1986, From the Series "Tuesday - Saturday 1986 Part I and II"
Marina Abramovic & Ulay, 1986, From the Series “Tuesday – Saturday 1986 Part I and II”

Marina Abramovic & Ulay, 1986

From the Series Tuesday – Saturday 1986, Part I and II.
Courtesy: Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt/Germany.

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There is a phrase you are as likely to find in a serious philosophy text as you are in the wackiest self-help book: ‘Know thyself!’

The phrase has serious philosophical pedigree: by Socrates’ time, it was more or less received wisdom (apparently chiselled into the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi) though a form of the phrase reaches back to Ancient Egypt. And ever since, the majority of philosophers have had something to say about it.

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