Socrates and the fat rabbis / Daniel Boyarin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyarin, Daniel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Dialogues.

Plato.

Talmud--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Talmud.

Comic, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Icaromeir: Rabbi Meir'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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-369) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612426193

9781282426191

1282426192

9780226069180

0226069184

OCLC:

527639515