UID:
almahu_9947414976502882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511575464 (ebook)
Content:
'Dialogue' was invented as a written form in democratic Athens and made a celebrated and popular literary and philosophical style by Plato. Yet it almost completely disappeared in the Christian empire of late antiquity. This book, a general and systematic study of the genre in antiquity, asks: who wrote dialogues and why? Why did dialogue no longer attract writers in the later period in the same way? Investigating dialogue goes to the heart of the central issues of power, authority, openness and playfulness in changing cultural contexts. This book analyses the relationship between literary form and cultural authority in a new and exciting way, and encourages closer reflection about the purpose of dialogue in its wider social, cultural and religious contexts in today's world.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction : why don't Christians do dialogue? /
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Fictions of dialogue in Thucydides /
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The beginnings of dialogue : Socratic discourses and fourth-century prose /
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Plato's dialogues and a common rationale for dialogue form /
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Ciceronian dialogue /
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Sympotic dialogue in the first to fifth centuries CE /
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Can we talk? : Augustine and the possibility of dialogue /
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'Let's (not) talk about it' : Augustine and the control of epistolary dialogue /
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Christians, dialogue and patterns of sociability in late antiquity /
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Boethius, Gregory the Great and the Christian 'afterlife' of classical dialogue /
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No dialogue at the symposium? : conviviality in Ben Sira and the Palestinian Talmud /
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Dialectic and divination in the Talmud /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521887748
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
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Philosophy
Keywords:
Konferenzschrift
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511575464
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