Couch City : Socrates against Simonides
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[Place of publication not identified] : Fordham University Press, 2021.
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1 online resource (187 pages)
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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.
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Berger, H., Risvold, W., & Fuqua, J. B. (2021). Couch City: Socrates against Simonides . Fordham University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Berger, Harry, 1924-, Ward, Risvold and J. Benjamin, Fuqua. 2021. Couch City: Socrates against Simonides. Fordham University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Berger, Harry, 1924-, Ward, Risvold and J. Benjamin, Fuqua. Couch City: Socrates against Simonides Fordham University Press, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Berger, Harry, Ward Risvold, and J. Benjamin Fuqua. Couch City: Socrates against Simonides Fordham University Press, 2021.
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