Apologies to Thucydides - Understanding History As Culture and Vice Versa

Klappentext Presents Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War that is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the ethnocentric idea that Thucydides' historiography was universally valid! applicable to all societies at all times. "This is an awe-inspiring work. . . . Classicists have plenty to learn from Sahlins on Thucydides, not least self-awareness about some of our disciplinary blind-spots. More broadly, Sahlin's trenchant discussion of historical agency and historical contingency will give students of history much to think about. . . . [The book] demonstrates the potential for intelligent interdisciplinary conversations to take the study of Thucydides in new directions."--Emily Greenwood "Journal of Hellenic Studies " Zusammenfassung Presents Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War that is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the ethnocentric idea that Thucydides' historiography was universally valid! applicable to all societies at all times.

Product details

• Authors: Marshall Sahlins, Sahlins Marshall
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.01.2014
• EAN: 9780226103822
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10382-2
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Historiography, Historiography