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Format: 1 online resource.

Edition: First edition.

ISBN: 0-8232-9741-1 , 0-8232-9424-2

Series Statement: Fordham scholarship online

Content: In addition to providing a thorough philological review, this book revises the way scholars have tended to read the Simonides episode from Plato's 'Protagoras'. 'Couch City' ties this review with a literary interpretation of the poem's involvement in the dialogue, how the dialogue itself may be read literarily, and, most importantly, how these readings work together rather than as discrete, incidental literary interventions in Socrates studies. It uses concepts like the performatives of speech-act theory to demonstrate how the structure of the dialogue sanctions the poem's transgressive playfulness as much as how Socrates's performance of the poem informs that structure as well as its execution.

Note: This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8232-9423-4

Language: English

URL: Fordham scholarship online

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Format: 1 online resource (192 p.)

ISBN: 9780823294251

Content: Crowning six decades of literary, rhetorical, and historical scholarship, Harry Berger, Jr., offers readers another trenchant reading. Berger subverts the usual interpretations of Plato’s kalos kagathos, showing Socrates to be trapped in a double ventriloquism, tethered to his interlocutors’ speech acts even as they are tethered to his. Plato’s Republic and Protagoras both reserve a small but significant place for a poet who differs from Homer and Hesiod: the lyric poet Simonides of Ceos. In the Protagoras, Socrates takes apart a poem attributed to Simonides and uses this to finish off the famous and supposedly dangerous sophist, Protagoras. Couch City is a close reading of the comic procedures Socrates deploys against Protagoras as he reduces him to silence. But it also shows that Socrates takes the danger posed by Protagoras and his fellow sophists seriously. Even if they are represented as buffoons, sophists are among the charismatic authority figures—poets, rhapsodes, seers, orators, and lawgivers—who promote views harmful to Athenian democracy. Socrates uses Simonides’s poem to show how sophists not only practice misinterpretation but are unable to defend against it. Berger ports his roots as a pioneering literary theorist into this rhetorical discussion, balancing ideas such as speech-act theory with hard-nosed philology. The result is a provocative and counterintuitive reassessment of Plato’s engagement with democracy.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction: Speech Bonds -- , Part I. The Republic -- , 1 Couch City, or, The Discourse of the Couch -- , 2 Simonides, Part 1 -- , 3 Simonides, Part 2 -- , 4 Simonides, Part 3 -- , 5 Simonides, Part 4 -- , Part II. The Protagoras -- , 6 Macrological Mystification: Protagoras’s Myth -- , 7 The Ethics of Etceteration -- , 8 The Parts of Gold and the Parts of Face -- , 9 Sophistry as Safemindedness in the Protagoras -- , Notes -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780823294251

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823294251

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823294251

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823294251

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (184 Seiten)

ISBN: 9780823294251

Content: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Speech Bonds -- Part I. The Republic -- 1 Couch City, or, The Discourse of the Couch -- 2 Simonides, Part 1 -- 3 Simonides, Part 2 -- 4 Simonides, Part 3 -- 5 Simonides, Part 4 -- Part II. The Protagoras -- 6 Macrological Mystification: Protagoras’s Myth -- 7 The Ethics of Etceteration -- 8 The Parts of Gold and the Parts of Face -- 9 Sophistry as Safemindedness in the Protagoras -- Notes -- Index

Content: Crowning six decades of literary, rhetorical, and historical scholarship, Harry Berger, Jr., offers readers another trenchant reading. Berger subverts the usual interpretations of Plato’s kalos kagathos, showing Socrates to be trapped in a double ventriloquism, tethered to his interlocutors’ speech acts even as they are tethered to his. Plato’s Republic and Protagoras both reserve a small but significant place for a poet who differs from Homer and Hesiod: the lyric poet Simonides of Ceos. In the Protagoras, Socrates takes apart a poem attributed to Simonides and uses this to finish off the famous and supposedly dangerous sophist, Protagoras. Couch City is a close reading of the comic procedures Socrates deploys against Protagoras as he reduces him to silence. But it also shows that Socrates takes the danger posed by Protagoras and his fellow sophists seriously. Even if they are represented as buffoons, sophists are among the charismatic authority figures—poets, rhapsodes, seers, orators, and lawgivers—who promote views harmful to Athenian democracy. Socrates uses Simonides’s poem to show how sophists not only practice misinterpretation but are unable to defend against it. Berger ports his roots as a pioneering literary theorist into this rhetorical discussion, balancing ideas such as speech-act theory with hard-nosed philology. The result is a provocative and counterintuitive reassessment of Plato’s engagement with democracy

Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780823294237

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Berger, Harry, 1924 - Couch city New York : Fordham University Press, 2021 ISBN 9780823294237

Additional Edition: ISBN 0823294234

Language: English

Keywords: Plato v427-v347 Protagoras ; Simonides Ceus

DOI: 10.1515/9780823294251

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