ISBN:
0226069168
,
9780226069166
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 388 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2009
DDC:
184
Keywords:
Plato
;
Talmud Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Comic, The
;
Plato v427-v347 Dialogi
;
Idealismus
;
Realismus
;
Babylonischer Talmud
;
Plato v427-v347 Dialogi
;
Idealismus
;
Realismus
;
Babylonischer Talmud
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
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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 -- Icaromeʿir: Rabbi Meʿir'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.
Note:
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-369) and index
