Thucydides and the philosophical origins of history / Darien Shanske.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shanske, Darien, 1974-
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Thucydides. > History of the Peloponnesian War.
Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. > Historiography.
History > Philosophy.
Physical Description:xii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.