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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago [u.a.]
The University of Chicago Press
c 2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Reviews: | The Dialogical Talmud: Daniel Boyarin and Rabbinics (2011) (Wimpfheimer, Barry S.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Plato 427 BC-347 BC, Dialogi
/ Idealism
/ Realism
/ Talmûd bavlî
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| Further subjects: | B
Plato Dialogues
B Talmud Criticism, interpretation, etc B Comic, The |
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| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-369) and index |
| ISBN: | 0226069168 |