Thucydides and Political Order -

Thucydides and Political Order

Concepts of Order and the History of the Peloponnesian War
Buch | Hardcover
201 Seiten
2015 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-52762-2 (ISBN)
117,65 inkl. MwSt
This book, the first of two monographs exploring Thucydides, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on political order, using the Peloponnesian War to explore the historiography and political development of the ancient world. These scholars analyze the original source material of the Athenian order and interpretations of such material.

Christian R. Thauer is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and at the Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His thesis was awarded the International Studies Association International Political Economy (ISA-IPE) Best Dissertation Prize 2009/10. Before joining the Hebrew University, Thauer taught at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Thauer is the co-editor of Business and Governance in South Africa and has published various articles on political economy and governance. Christian Wendt is Professor of Ancient History at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and head of the Berlin Thucydides Center. His publications include Sine fine (2008) and numerous articles on Greek historiography and political thought, ancient international law, and the reception of Thucydides in modern political theory. He is the co-editor of 2000 Jahre Varusschlacht (2012) and is currently co-editing a volume on ancient sea power.

PART I – INTRODUCTION: THUCYDIDES AND POLITICAL ORDER
1. Introduction: Thucydides and Political Order; Christian R. Thauer and Christian Wendt
PART II – THUCYDIDES AND THE MODERN READER: METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
2. Contextualism and Universalism in Thucydidean Thought; Neville Morley
3. It's Time For History! Thucydides in International Relations: Towards a Post-'Westphalian' Reading of a Pre-'Westphalian' Author; Christian R. Thauer
4. Between office and tyranny, internal and external rulership: arch? in Herodotus and Thucydides; Peter Spahn
5. Turannis in the work of Thucydides; Martin Dreher (Magdeburg)
PART III – REPRESENTATIONS OF ORDER IN THUCYDIDES
6. Beneath Politics: Thucydides on the Body as the Ground and Limit of the Political Regime; Clifford Orwin
7. The 'Rule of the Sea': Thucydidean Concept or Periclean Utopia?; Hans Kopp
8. Civic Trust in Thucydides' History; Ryan Balot

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.12.2015
Zusatzinfo VIII, 201 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Latein / Altgriechisch
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-137-52762-5 / 1137527625
ISBN-13 978-1-137-52762-2 / 9781137527622
Zustand Neuware
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