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Thucydides and the philosophical origins of history
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Thucydides and the philosophical origins of history [electronic resource] / Darien Shanske.
ISBN
9780511349775
0511349777
9780511497834
0511497830
9780521864114
0521864119
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource ( xii, 268 pages) : illustrations
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
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Print version: Shanske, Darien, 1974- Thucydides and the philosophical origins of history. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2007
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 08, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-259) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Restoring the wonder of Thucydides
Theoretical preliminaries
Short outline
Thucydides's vision
Introduction
six features of Thucydides's text
The first sentence
The archaeology
The empire of logos
What the Athenians did not know
Thucydides on his method
disclosure about disclosure
The causes of the war
Conclusion
The case of Pericles
War
Pericles's first speech
Who we are
Pericles's funeral oration
Rhetoric and adversity
Pericles's third speech
Transition
the dissemination of Pericles
Plague
Cleon and Diodotus
Brasidas and Hermocrates
Nicias and Alcibiades
Thucydides
Themistocles
Identity and disclosure
Conclusion
Deinon, logos, and the tragic question concerning the human
Introduction
Tragedy
Introducing the Deinon
Tragic elements in Thucydides
Deinon in pretragic literature
summary
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Thucydides revisited (the Deinon and Epieikeia)
Plato
Conclusion
Thucydidean temporality
Introduction
The metaphysics of praise
Pericles and Socrates on Athens
Plato's Menexenus
Thucydides and Plato in the philosophical tradition
Heraclitus
Thucydides as a cure for platonism
Thucydidean realism
Book eight
Philosophical implications
Conclusion
Appendix one: Restoring key terms 1.1
1.23
Unconcealedness (Aletheia)
What is appropriate (Ta Deonta)
Pretext (prophasis)
Compulsion (Ananke)
Kind (Toioutos)
Appendix two: Pretragic history of Deinon
Introduction
Etymology and history of interpretation
Homer and Hesiod
Conclusion
Appendix three: Wittgenstein on fly-bottles, aspect seeing, and history
Introduction
Aspect seeing
Aspect seeing and history
Conclusion: Forms of life and logos
Appendix four: Heidegger on world and originary temporality
Introduction
World
Ontological difference
Originary temporality
Phenomenological bestiary
An internal defense.
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