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Thucydides, a Violent Teacher?

Author : Georg Rechenauer
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3899716132
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Thucydides, a Violent Teacher? written by Georg Rechenauer and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2011 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War has not only decisively influenced our notion of history up until the present day; the complexity of his account also constitutes a particular challenge to philological and historical interpretations alike. Besides focusing on the political and military aspects, by virtue of its unpretentious, downright scientific perspective on historical events and their driving forces, this work set standards that have hardly been surpassed since. In the light of the remarkable sobriety with which Thucydides presents historical reality as a natural realm of existence beyond all theological, ethical or ideological embellishments, the history of thought and the hermeneutical implications behind this model of history are equally fascinating. This volume endeavours to explore the nature of the relation between historical reality and literary portrayal in Thucydides' historical work. New insights are provided from different perspectives on the question of how the contemporary 5th-century and the present-day reader is directed by the author as a violent teacher.

Thucydides a violent teacher?

Author : Georg Rechenauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783862346134
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Thucydides a violent teacher? written by Georg Rechenauer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thucydides – a violent teacher?

Author : Georg Rechenauer
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3862341097
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Thucydides – a violent teacher? written by Georg Rechenauer and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Werk des Thukydides über den Peloponnesischen Krieg hat nicht nur bis heute unsere Vorstellung von Geschichte maßgeblich geprägt, es fordert aufgrund der Komplexität seiner Darstellung auch die philologische wie historische Interpretation in besonderem Maße heraus. Neben der Konzentration der Darstellung auf die politisch-militärischen Aspekte hat dieses Werk mit der Eröffnung eines vollkommen illusionslosen, ja regelrecht naturwissenschaftlichen Blickes auf das historische Geschehen und seine Antriebskräfte Maßstäbe gesetzt, die seither kaum mehr übertroffen wurden. Angesichts der frappierenden Nüchternheit, mit der Thukydides die geschichtliche Realität als naturhaften Seinsbereich jenseits aller theologischen, ethischen oder ideologischen Verbrämung darstellt, faszinieren an diesem Geschichtsmodell die geistesgeschichtlichen Voraussetzungen wie die hermeneutischen Implikationen gleichermaßen.Der vorliegende Band versucht Antworten zu finden auf die Frage, wie sich im Geschichtswerk des Thukydides das Verhältnis zwischen historischer Realität und literarischer Darstellungsweise gestaltet. Dabei werden aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln neue Einsichten vermittelt zu der Frage, wie der Leser – der zeitgenössische des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. ebenso wie der heutige – vom Autor als »gewalttätigem Lehrer« gelenkt wird. The work of Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War has not only decisively influenced our notion of history up until the present day; the complexity of his account also constitutes a particular challenge to philological and historical interpretations alike. Besides focussing on the political and military aspects, by virtue of its unpretentious, downright scientific perspective on historical events and their driving forces, this work set standards that have hardly been surpassed since. In the light of the remarkable sobriety with which Thucydides presents historical reality as a natural realm of existence beyond all theological, ethical or ideological embellishments, the history of thought and the hermeneutical implications behind this model of history are equally fascinating.This volume endeavours to explore the nature of the relation between historical reality and literary portrayal in Thucydides' historical work. New insights are provided from different perspectives on the question how the contemporary 5th-century and the present-day reader is directed by the author as a "violent teacher".

Masters and Slaves

Author : Michael Palmer
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739102770
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Masters and Slaves written by Michael Palmer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays sheds light on the writings of leading figures in the history of political philosophy by exploring a nexus of questions concerning mastery and slavery in the human soul. To this end, Masters and Slaves elucidates archetypal human alternatives in their import for political life: the philosopher and king; the lover of wisdom and the lover of glory; the king and the tyrant; and finally, the master and the slave. Palmer re-examines these ideas as a framework for achieving a deeper understanding of the work of famous thinkers--from the ancient to modern times--including Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau. As well, the book addresses distinctions between the 'ancients' and the 'moderns, ' and touches on the work of contemporary theorists such as Leo Strauss, George Parkin Grant, and Allan Bloom.

Wherefrom Does History Emerge?

Author : Tilo Schabert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110672308
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Wherefrom Does History Emerge? written by Tilo Schabert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powers of chaos accompany any order of the human world, being the force against which this order is set. Human experience of history is two-fold. There is history ruled by chaos and history ruled by order. "History" occurs in a continuous flow of both histories. The dialectics of life unto nothingness/creation, struggles for order/order achieved is unceasingly actual. In exploring it, within a wide interdisciplinary and transcultural range, this book reaches beyond a conventional "philosophy of history". It deals with the chaotic as well as the cosmic part of the human historical experience. It stages this drama through the tales that religious, mythical, literary, philosophical, folkloristic, and historiographical sources tell and which are retold and interpreted here. From early on humans wished to know where, why, and wherefore all started and took place. Couldn’t the dialectics between chaos and order be meaningful? Couldn’t they assume a productive role as to the world’s precarious event? Power, strife, guilt, divine grace and revelation, literary symbolization, as well as storytelling are discussed in this book. Philosophy, political theory, theology, religious studies, and literary studies will greatly benefit from its width and density.

Xenophon on Violence

Author : Aggelos Kapellos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110671530
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Xenophon on Violence written by Aggelos Kapellos and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the issue of violence in Xenophon’s works, who lived in circumstances of war for many years. All the papers address issues of violence from different aspects. The exclusive focus on this issue is justified, since no previous detailed study exists on the subject. Most of the chapters focus on the Hellenica, because this work records more aspects of violence than the rest of his works. The volume is more concerned with examining violence in practice rather than the theory of violence, and violent practices are more frequently recorded in the Hellenica, which is the main historical work of Xenophon.This volume attempts to provide a comprehensive study of the subject of violence in Xenophon’s works and to demonstrate the coherence and consistency of his thought on it. This work aspires to be a contribution to classical scholarship since it attempts to: (1) shed further light on the literary character of Xenophon’s oeuvre; (2) offer new interpretation of passages and themes; and (3) put emphasis on passages that scholars have not pointed out and which offer important insights to the thought of Xenophon.

The General Demosthenes and His Use of Military Surprise

Author : Joseph Roisman
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783515062770
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book The General Demosthenes and His Use of Military Surprise written by Joseph Roisman and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1993 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Athenian general Demosthenes, who fought in the Peleponnesian war, used surprise in all his military operations. Chiefly because of this reason he has sometimes been labeled as an original thinker, if not a misunderstood genius. This study asks whether Demosthenes deserved the accolades that have charaterized much of the modern studies of the general and his age. The investigation identifies what factors were responsible for Demosthenes' successes and failures, and draws attention to the hitherto unnoticed contributors to the general's victories. The study points to Demosthenes' inclination to take great risks, his uncompromising belief in the effectiveness of surprise in war, and his readiness to ignore objective difficulties in pursuing his goals. In addition, Demosthenes' campaigns indicate a narrow perception of military problems, a tendency to give up rather easily when things were not going according to plan and an inability to lead an orderly retreat.

The Rhetoric of Judging Well

Author : David A. Frank
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271096136
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Judging Well written by David A. Frank and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-03-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the “swing justice,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy provided the key vote determining which way the Supreme Court would decide on some of the most controversial cases in US history. Though criticized for his unpredictable rulings, Kennedy also gained a reputation for his opinion writing and, more so, for his legal rhetoric. This book examines Justice Kennedy’s legacy through the lenses of rhetoric, linguistics, and constitutional law. Essays analyze Kennedy’s opinion writing in landmark cases such as Romer v. Evans, Obergefell v. Hodges, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Using the Justice’s rhetoric as an entry point into his legal philosophy, this volume reveals Kennedy as a justice with contradictions and blind spots—especially on race, women’s rights, and immigration—but also as a man of empathy deeply committed to American citizenship. A sophisticated assessment of Justice Kennedy’s jurisprudence, this book provides new insight into Kennedy’s legacy on the Court and into the role that rhetoric plays in judging and in communicating judgment. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Ashutosh Bhagwat, Elizabeth C. Britt, Martin Camper, Michael Gagarin, James A. Gardner, Eugene Garver, Leslie Gielow Jacobs, Sean Patrick O’Rourke, Susan E. Provenzano, Clarke Rountree, Leticia M. Saucedo, Darien Shanske, Kathryn Stanchi, and Rebecca E. Zietlow.

Year 1

Author : Susan Buck-Morss
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262362716
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Year 1 written by Susan Buck-Morss and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences: liberating the past to speak to us in another way. Conventional readings of antiquity cast Athens against Jerusalem, with Athens standing in for "reason" and Jerusalem for "faith." And yet, Susan Buck-Morss reminds us, recent scholarship has overturned this separation. Naming the first century as a zero point--"year one"--that divides time into before and after is equally arbirtrary, nothing more than a convenience that is empirically meaningless. In YEAR 1, Buck-Morss liberates the first century so it can speak to us in another way, reclaiming it as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences. Buck-Morss aims to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme and led us into some unhelpful postmodern impasses. She approaches the first century through the writings of three thinkers often marginalized in current discourse: Flavius Josephus, historian of the Judaean war; the neo-Platonic philosopher Philo of Alexandria; and John of Patmos, author of Revelation, the last book of the Christian Bible. Also making appearances are Antigone and John Coltrane, Plato and Bulwer-Lytton, al-Farabi and Jean Anouilh, Nicholas of Cusa and Zora Neale Hurston--not to mention Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Kristeva, and Derrida. Buck-Morss shows that we need no longer partition history as if it were a homeless child in need of the protective wisdom of Solomon. Those inhabiting the first century belong together in time, and therefore not to us.

In the Court of the Gentiles: Narrative, Exemplarity, and Scriptural Adaptation in the Court-Tales of Flavius Josephus

Author : David Edwards
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004549064
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book In the Court of the Gentiles: Narrative, Exemplarity, and Scriptural Adaptation in the Court-Tales of Flavius Josephus written by David Edwards and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwards explores how Josephus in Antiquities adapts the scriptural stories of Joseph and Esther in unexpected ways as models for accounts of more recent Jewish figures. Terming this practice “subversive adaptation,” Edwards contextualizes it within Greco-Roman literary culture and employs the concept of “discourses of exemplarity” to show how Josephus used narratives about past figures to engage Roman elites in moral reflection and pragmatic decision-making. This book supplies analysis of frequently overlooked accounts as well as Josephus’ broader literary strategies, and shows how ancient Jews appropriated imperial historiographical conventions and forms of discourse while countering Greco-Roman claims of cultural superiority.

On Justice, Power & Human Nature

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780872201699
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book On Justice, Power & Human Nature written by Thucydides and published by Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts from The History of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most light on Thucydides' political theory--famous as well as important but lesser-known pieces frequently overlooked by nonspecialists. Newly translated into spare, vigorous English, and situated within a connective narrative framework, Woodruff's selections will be of special interest to instructors in political theory and Greek civilization. Includes maps, notes, glossary.

The Divine in Acts and in Ancient Historiography

Author : Scott Shauf
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1451484771
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Divine in Acts and in Ancient Historiography written by Scott Shauf and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scott Shauf compares the portrayal of the divine in Acts with portrayals of the divine in other ancient historiographical writings, the latter including Jewish and wider Greco-Roman historiographical traditions. This book explores especially how the divine is represented as involved in history, the nature of divine retribution, the partiality or impartiality of the divine toward different sets of people, and the portrayal of divine control over seemingly purely natural and human events. Acts is shown to be engaging historiographical traditions of the author's own day but also contributing unique historiographical perspectives."--

Theatre and Human Rights

Author : Gary M. English
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040102611
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Human Rights written by Gary M. English and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops theoretical intersections between theatre and human rights and provides methodologies to investigate human rights questions from within the perspective of theatre as a complex set of disciplines. While human rights research and programming often employ the arts as representations of human rights-related violations and abuses, this study focuses on dramatic form and structure, in addition to content, as uniquely positioned to interrogate important questions in human rights theory and practice. This project positions theatre as a method of examination in addition to the important purposes the arts serve to raise consciousness that accompany other, often considered more primary modes of analysis. A main feature of this approach includes emphasis on dialectical structures in drama and human rights and integration of applied theatre and critical ethnography with more traditional theatre. This integration will demonstrate how theatre and human rights operates beyond the arts as representation model, offering a primary means of analysis, activism, and political discourse. This book will be of great interest to theatre and human rights practitioners and activists, scholars, and students.

Representative Words

Author : Thomas Gustafson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521395120
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Representative Words written by Thomas Gustafson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Gustafson examines how and why Americans renewed and developed the tradition of writing connecting political disorders and the corruption of language between the ages of the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars.

From Melos to My Lai

Author : Lawrence A. Tritle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134603657
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book From Melos to My Lai written by Lawrence A. Tritle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-03-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a brilliant and moving discussion of the nature of violence in the ancient and modern world and how the traumas experienced affected the survivors.

Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens

Author : Ryan K. Balot
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691220158
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens written by Ryan K. Balot and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and rewarding combination of intellectual and political history, Ryan Balot offers a thorough historical and sociological interpretation of classical Athens centered on the notion of greed. Integrating ancient philosophy, poetry, and history, and drawing on modern political thought, the author demonstrates that the Athenian discourse on greed was an essential component of Greek social development and political history. Over time, the Athenians developed sophisticated psychological and political accounts of acquisitiveness and a correspondingly rich vocabulary to describe and condemn it. Greed figures repeatedly as an object of criticism in authors as diverse as Solon, Thucydides, and Plato--all of whom addressed the social disruptions caused by it, as well as the inadequacy of lives focused on it. Because of its ethical significance, greed surfaced frequently in theoretical debates about democracy and oligarchy. Ultimately, critiques of greed--particularly the charge that it is unjust--were built into the robust accounts of justice formulated by many philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle. Such critiques of greed both reflected and were inextricably knitted into economic history and political events, including the coups of 411 and 404 B.C. Balot contrasts ancient Greek thought on distributive justice with later Western traditions, with implications for political and economic history well beyond the classical period. Because the belief that greed is good holds a dominant position in modern justifications of capitalism, this study provides a deep historical context within which such justifications can be reexamined and, perhaps, found wanting.

One Night, Two Teams

Author : Steven Travers
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 158979544X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book One Night, Two Teams written by Steven Travers and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sweltering heat of September of 1970 on Legion Field, the USC Trojans and the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide played a game that defined the emancipation of the South from its sordid history of racial segregation. When USC's black running backSam "The Bam" Cunningham ran roughshod all over the all-white Crimson Tide, more than a football game was won. Based on interviews with many of the game's participants and thoroughly researched this book presents sports as a metaphor for one of the mostprofound social changes in history.