The End of Dialogue in Antiquity
Simon Goldhill (ed.)
Cambridge University Press (2008)
| Abstract | '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, the first 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 | |||||||||
| Keywords | Dialectic Dialogue Philosophy, Ancient Church history Dialogue Religious aspects | |||||||||
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| Call number | B105.D48.E53 2008 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780521887748 0521887747 | |||||||||
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