Contextualism and universalism in Thucydidean thought

Neville Morley

doi:10.1057/9781137527639

Contextualism and universalism in Thucydidean thought

Neville Morley

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Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to develop a framework for understanding the diverse traditions of interpretation and appropriation of Thucydides in the modern world; that is, the ways in which his work has been understood as offering useful and useable knowledge (not readings of the text as an end in themselves), and the ways in which ideas attributed to Thucydides have been deployed to support different intellectual projects.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Thucydides and Politicial Order
Subtitle of host publication	Concepts of order and the history of the Peloponnesian War
Editors	Christian Thauer, Christian Wendt
Place of Publication	Basingstoke & New York
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	23-40
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-137-52763-9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-137-52762-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137527639 https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137527639_2
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2016

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Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition

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Thucydides: reception, reinterpretation and influence
Morley, N. D. G. & Lee, M. C.
1/12/09 → 1/12/13
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