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Thucydides and the philosophical origins of history /
This book addresses the question of how and why history begins with the work of Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War is distinctive in that it is a prose narrative, meant to be read rather than performed. It focuses on the unfolding of contemporary great power politics to the exclusion o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.