Socrates and the fat rabbis / Daniel Boyarin.

Author/creator Boyarin, Daniel
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Descriptionxiv, 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [355]-369) and index.
LCCN 2009013814
ISBN9780226069166 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226069168 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks B398.C63 B69 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold