Thucydides and the philosophical origins of history / Darien Shanske.
| Author/creator | Shanske, Darien, 1974- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. |
| Description | xii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-259) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005037371 |
| ISBN | 0521864119 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780521864114 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | DF229.T6 S47 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |