The End of Dialogue in Antiquity - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0521887747 ISBN 13: 9780521887748

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

'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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"The book's scope--from Thucydides and Plato, to Cicero and late sympotic literature, to the rabbinic tales and the Church Fathers--is wondrous. --BMCR

Descrizione del libro:

Dialogue was invented as a written genre by fifth-century Greeks but in the ancient Christian empire became a largely forgotten form. It raises profound questions of freedom, openness, power and authority. This volume investigates why dialogue matters. Who wrote dialogues and why? Who repressed dialogues and why?

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521887747
• ISBN 13: 9780521887748
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 276
• Redattore: Goldhill Simon