{"product_id":"couch-city-socrates-against-simonides-hardback-9780823294237","title":"Couch City; Socrates Against Simonides (Hardback) 9780823294237","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCouch City\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSocrates Against Simonides\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHarry Berger (Author), Jill Frank (Introduction by), Ward Risvold (Edited by), J. Benjamin Fuqua (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823294237\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 May 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.322 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrowning six decades of literary, rhetorical, and historical scholarship, Harry Berger, Jr., offers readers another trenchant reading. Berger subverts the usual interpretations of Plato's \u003ci\u003ekalos kagathos\u003c\/i\u003e, showing Socrates to be trapped in a double ventriloquism, tethered to his interlocutors' speech acts even as they are tethered to his. \u003cbr\u003e Plato's \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eProtagoras\u003c\/i\u003e both reserve a small but significant place for a poet who differs from Homer and Hesiod: the lyric poet Simonides of Ceos. In the \u003ci\u003eProtagoras\u003c\/i\u003e, Socrates takes apart a poem attributed to Simonides and uses this to finish off the famous and supposedly dangerous sophist, Protagoras. \u003ci\u003eCouch City\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Speech Bonds, by Jill Frank   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: The \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e Couch City, or, The Discourse of the Couch   13\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e Simonides, Part 1   25\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e Simonides, Part 2   46\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e Simonides, Part 3   62\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5\u003c\/b\u003e Simonides, Part 4   82\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: The \u003ci\u003eProtagoras\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6\u003c\/b\u003e Macrological Mystification: Protagoras's Myth   109\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7\u003c\/b\u003e The Ethics of Etceteration   123\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8\u003c\/b\u003e The Parts of Gold and the Parts of Face   130\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9\u003c\/b\u003e Sophistry as Safemindedness in the \u003ci\u003eProtagoras\u003c\/i\u003e   143\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   171\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   177\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52742625788184,"sku":"9780823294237","price":40.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/couch-city-socrates-against-simonides-hardback-9780823294237","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}