“…Décrire la psychologie des philosophes, de Henri Bergson à Jean-Pierre Vernant, ce n’est pas fouiller dans leur vie pour exhiber leurs petits secrets. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…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 -- 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 -- Deinon, logos, and the tragic question concerning the human -- Tragedy -- Introducing the Deinon -- Tragic elements in thucydides -- Deinon in pre-tragic literature : a summary -- Aeschylus -- Sophocles -- Euripides -- Thucydides revisited (the Deinon and Epieikeia) -- Plato -- Thucydidean temporality -- 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 -- 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 -- Etymology and history of interpretation -- Homer and Hesiod -- Appendix three: Wittgenstein on fly-bottles, aspect seeing, and history -- Aspect seeing -- Aspect seeing and history -- Conclusion: Forms of life and logos -- Appendix four: Heidegger on world and originary temporality -- World -- Ontological difference -- Originary temporality -- Phenomenological bestiary -- An internal defense…”
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