Thucydides and the philosophical origins of history /
Shanske, Darien,1974-
New York ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-259) and index.
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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