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Beneath Politics: Thucydides on the Body as the Ground and Limit of the Political Regime

verfasst von : Clifford Orwin

Erschienen in: Thucydides and Political Order

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

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It is an honor and a pleasure to contribute to this distinguished collection, not least because its general approach is so congenial to me. My own reading of Thucydides has always been shaped by my preoccupations as a scholar of the history of political thought. I see him not as a pre-Socratic but as a proto-Socratic—given his contemporaneity with Socrates might I say a co-Socratic?—who has already found his way to the guiding question of Socratic politics. That is the question of this volume, that of the political regime.1 Two such regimes, Athens and Sparta, are the principal actors in his work. I say two regimes, rather than two cities, because Thucydides already grasps the fundamental insight so brilliantly displayed in Book Three of Aristotle’s Politics, that wherever a city claims to act, there lurks in fact only a regime, a part masquerading as the whole.

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Metadaten
Titel
Beneath Politics: Thucydides on the Body as the Ground and Limit of the Political Regime
verfasst von
Clifford Orwin
Copyright-Jahr
2016
Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan US
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137527639_6