The Thucydidean Turn
(Re)Interpreting Thucydides? Political Thought Before, During and After the Great War
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 11 June 2020
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350123717
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 162x236x20 mm
- Weight 540 g
- Language English 78
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Long description:
The emergence of Thucydides as an influential political thinker in the first half of the 20th century has been astonishingly neglected by modern scholars. This volume examines how, why, and when the Athenian historical came to occupy such a prominent position in political discourse in the US and Europe today. It argues that in the years before, during, and after the Great War Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War was mined for the insights that it could offer into contemporary politics, and that it was also used as part of the justification for the academic and cultural relevance of Classics at this time of great political upheaval.
Academic classicists and classically trained commentators were instrumental in this 'turn' in academic focus onto Thucydides' contemporary relevance. Among the former were several prominent figures, such as Francis Cornford, Gilbert Murray, and Enoch Powell, who attempted to find in Thucydides a dark depiction of human nature and the passions that drove politics to justify his contemporary relevance. The latter included International Relations scholars and journalists such as Alfred Zimmern, Albert Toynbee, and George Abbott, who 'turned' to Thucydides in order to better understand contemporary global and European politics. A final chapter demonstrates how this British 'turn' to Thucydides was received and reinterpreted in America on the eve of the Second World War.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Defining the Thucydidean turn
2. Thucydides between Science and Tragedy
3. Thucydides, Realism, and Political Psychology
4. Thucydides, Realism, and the Great War
5. Thucydides, Historical Change, and Contemporaneity
6. Learning to Tolerate Thucydides
7. Epilogue: American Thucydides(s)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
