Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History Hardback - Hardcover

Shanske

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521864119 ISBN 13: 9780521864114

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

In this study, Darien Shanske analyzes the difficult language and structure of Thucydides' History and argues that the text has drawn in so many readers into its distinctive worldview precisely because of its kinship to the contemporary language and structure of Classical Tragedy.

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Críticas:

Review of the hardback: '[Shanske's] book grasps tenaciously at important questions and never lets them out of sight. The author demonstrates an encyclopaedic grasp of the tradition and flashes of deep originality ... [Shanske] has reopened the question of Thucydides' importance and status in the present.' BMCR

'[Shanske] sensitively touches on themes of great importance for the contemporary use of Thucydides in international relations; his conclusion that 'those who believe that Thucydides the political realist is delving beneath events to uncover causal connections that must recur ... are actually attributing to Thucydides a form of what Nietzsche would call Platonism' ... is worth pondering.' Journal of Hellenic Studies

'This is a highly original and in many ways a productively provocative book. Following in the tradition of, e.g. Cochrane, H. -P. Stahl and Virginia Hunter, Shanske views Thucydides within a metaphysical framework, here Heracleitean, within which the central component in Thucydides' vision is that a man characterized by irreconcilable tensions.' Gnomon

'... I can only join in the author's wish, stated at the end of the acknowledgements, that this seminal work 'becomes a vehicle for ongoing dialogue'.' De novis libris iudicia

Biografía del autor:

Darien Shanske is a scholar of ancient philosophy and works on topics at the intersection of philosophy, classics, and law.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521864119
• ISBN 13: 9780521864114
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280