Thucydides and Political Order: Lessons of Governance and the History of the Peloponnesian War - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349578991 ISBN 13: 9781349578993

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Synopsis

This book, the second of two monographs, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on Thucydides' legacy to the political process. It also includes a careful examination of the usefulness and efficacy of the interdisciplinary approach to political order in the ancient world and proposes new paths for the future study.

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About the Author

Christian R. Thauer is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and at the Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His thesis was awarded the International Studies Association International Political Economy (ISA-IPE) Best Dissertation Prize 2009/10. Before joining the Hebrew University, Thauer taught at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Thauer is the co-editor of Business and Governance in South Africa and has published articles on political economy and governance.

Christian Wendt is Professor of Ancient History at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and head of the Berlin Thucydides Center. His publications include Sine fine (2008) and numerous articles on Greek historiography and political thought, ancient international law, and the reception of Thucydides in modern political theory. He is the co-editor of 2000 Jahre Varusschlacht (2012) and is currently co-editing a volume on ancient sea power.

From the Back Cover

Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is considered in history and political science as a text of fundamental disciplinary relevance. However, neither discipline takes the other discipline into account during debates about Thucydides. Following Thucydides and Political Order: Concepts of Order and the History of the Peloponnesian War, this collection features scholarly work that asks what political order Thucydides envisioned, against which he might have judged the events he described. The contributors explore the role that Thucydides plays as a model theorist or representative of an ideal political order in philosophical traditions and schools of thought.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349578991
• ISBN 13: 9781349578993
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 205
• Editor: Thauer Christian R., Wendt Christian