Couch City : : Socrates against Simonides / / Harry Berger; ed. by J. Benjamin Fuqua, Ward Risvold.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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