Socrates & the fat rabbis

An innovative attempt to read Plato with the Talmud, and the Talmud with Plato, this book examines Platonic and Talmudic dialogues to show that in a sense they are not dialogic at all, but a monological discursive form yoked incongruously with a comic mode

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1. VerfasserIn: Boyarin, Daniel 1946- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Chicago [u.a.] The University of Chicago Press c 2009
In:Jahr: 2009
Rezensionen:The Dialogical Talmud: Daniel Boyarin and Rabbinics (2011) (Wimpfheimer, Barry S.)
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Plato 427 v. Chr.-347 v. Chr., Dialogi / Idealismus / Realismus / Babylonischer Talmud
weitere Schlagwörter:B Plato Dialogues
B Talmud Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Comic, The
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Zusammenfassung:An innovative attempt to read Plato with the Talmud, and the Talmud with Plato, this book examines Platonic and Talmudic dialogues to show that in a sense they are not dialogic at all, but a monological discursive form yoked incongruously with a comic mode
Preface : The cheese and the sermons: toward a microhistory of ideas -- In praise of indecorous acts of discourse: an essay by way of introduction -- "Confound laughter with seriousness": the Protagoras as monological dialogue -- "Confound seriousness with laughter": on monological and dialogical -- Reading "The Gorgias" -- Jesting words and dreadful lessons: the two voices of the Babylonian Talmud -- "Read Lucian!": Menippean satire and the literary world of the Babylonian Talmud -- Icaromeʻir: Rabbi Meʻir's Babylonian "Life" as Menippean satire -- "The truest tragedy": the Symposium as monologue -- A crude contradiction; or, The second accent of the Symposium -- Appendix: On the postmodern allegorical
Beschreibung:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-369) and index
ISBN:0226069168