ABSTRACT
This is the second of two chapters devoted to Greek examples. As Greek culture is one of our oldest systematic written sources, it is particularly helpful for contrasting the way the trickster is seen from the outside and how some trickster figures operated inside society; and as it is one of the sources of our civilisation, it is particularly helpful in our quest for understanding how our world could have become dominated by trickster logic. The link between these two chapters is similar to the links between chapters one and two. This chapter will take a closer look at one particular work of Greek thinking, Plato’s Theaetetus, as this dialogue contains a series of special hints about a trickster knowledge that is both secret and unspeakable, due to its destructive, incommensurable character.
