Socrates and the fat rabbis / Daniel Boyarin.
| Author/creator | Boyarin, Daniel |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009. |
| Description | xiv, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-369) and index. |
| LCCN | 2009013814 |
| ISBN | 9780226069166 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0226069168 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | B398.C63 B69 2009 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |