Thucydides and the philosophical origins of history
By: Darien Shanske
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Thucydides.; History -- Philosophy; Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-259) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Restoring the wonder of Thucydides; title: Theoretical preliminaries; title: Short outline; title: Thucydides's vision; title: Introduction; title: six features of Thucydides's text; title: The first sentence; title: The archaeology; title: The empire of logos; title: What the Athenians did not know; title: Thucydides on his method; title: disclosure about disclosure; title: The causes of the war; title: Conclusion; title: The case of Pericles; title: War; title: Pericles's first speech; title: Who we are; title: Pericles's funeral oration; title: Rhetoric and adversity; title: Pericles's third speech; title: Transition; title: the dissemination of Pericles; title: Plague; title: Cleon and Diodotus; title: Brasidas and Hermocrates; title: Nicias and Alcibiades; title: Thucydides; title: Themistocles; title: Identity and disclosure; title: Conclusion; title: Deinon, logos, and the tragic question concerning the human; title: Introduction; title: Tragedy; title: Introducing the Deinon; title: Tragic elements in Thucydides; title: Deinon in pretragic literature; title: summary; title: Aeschylus; title: Sophocles; title: Euripides; title: Thucydides revisited (the Deinon and Epieikeia); title: Plato; title: Conclusion; title: Thucydidean temporality; title: Introduction; title: The metaphysics of praise; title: Pericles and Socrates on Athens; title: Plato's Menexenus; title: Thucydides and Plato in the philosophical tradition; title: Heraclitus; title: Thucydides as a cure for platonism; title: Thucydidean realism; title: Book eight; title: Philosophical implications; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix one: Restoring key terms 1.1; title: 1.23; title: Unconcealedness (Aletheia); title: What is appropriate (Ta Deonta); title: Pretext (prophasis); title: Compulsion (Ananke); title: Kind (Toioutos); title: Appendix two: Pretragic history of Deinon; title: Introduction; title: Etymology and history of interpretation; title: Homer and Hesiod; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix three: Wittgenstein on fly-bottles, aspect seeing, and history; title: Introduction; title: Aspect seeing; title: Aspect seeing and history; title: Conclusion: Forms of life and logos; title: Appendix four: Heidegger on world and originary temporality; title: Introduction; title: World; title: Ontological difference; title: Originary temporality; title: Phenomenological bestiary; title: An internal defense