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Geoffrey Hawthorn, Geoffrey (University of Cambridge) Hawthorn, Hawthorn Geoffrey

Thucydides on Politics - Back to the Present

English · Hardback

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Description

This highly original and engaging perspective on Thucydides' understanding of practical politics explains how he presented the realities of politics and what makes his view distinctive, even from modern theories which claim an explicit connection with his work.

List of contents

Preface; Chronology; 1. The text; 2. Writing power: Athens in Greece, 478-435; 3. Explaining the war: stated reasons, 435-432; 4. Explaining the war: true reasons, 435-432; 5. Judgements, 431-430; 6. Absent strategies, 430-428; 7. Speech and other events, 428-427; 8. Meaning and opportunity, 426-424; 9. Necessities, 424; 10. Interests, 423-421; 11. Emotion in deed, 420-416; 12. Purposes and decisions, 415; 13. Character and circumstance, 414-413; 14. One war, 413-411; 15. Back to the present; Synopsis of the text.

About the author

Geoffrey Hawthorn (1941–2015) was Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Cambridge. He taught sociology and politics at the Universities of Essex and Cambridge and was twice a visiting professor at Harvard University. He published books on human fertility, the history of social theory, counterfactual thinking in history and the social sciences and the politics of east Asia. He also studied the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, and wrote a large number of essays and reviews across a range of subjects in philosophy and politics.

Product details

Authors	Geoffrey Hawthorn, Geoffrey (University of Cambridge) Hawthorn, Hawthorn Geoffrey
Publisher	Cambridge University Press ELT

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	20.03.2014

EAN	9781107039162
ISBN	978-1-107-03916-2
No. of pages	300
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Ancient history: to c 500 CE

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