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The present essay aims to contribute to the contemporary debate on what the most appropriate approach for political historiography is. In it, three approaches are outlined as the most influential and widespread today: philosophico-methodological historicism, contextualism, and the paradigmatic approach. The paradigmatic approach is investigated with respect to its nature, contents and heuristic parameters,...
In the eighteenth century the tension between Thucydides’ universalizing claims and the specific circumstances of the events he describes was felt acutely as readers became increasingly aware of the vast differences in politics, economics, society, and culture between antiquity and modernity. This chapter analyzes the reception of Thucydides in the thought of the Abbé de Mably (1709–85) and his novel...
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