Couch City: Socrates Against Simonides

by Harry Berger Jr.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823294234
• ISBN13: 9780823294237
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"