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Possibilities haunt history. The force of our explanations of events turns on the alternative possibilities these explanations suggest. It is these possible worlds which give us our understanding; and in human affairs we decide them by practical rather than theoretical judgement. In his widely acclaimed account of the role of counterfactuals in explanation, Geoffrey Hawthorn deploys extended examples from history and modern times to defend his argument. His conclusions cast doubt on existing assumptions about the nature and place of theory, and indeed of the possibility of knowledge itself, in the human sciences.

History --- Sociological theories --- --Sciences sociales --- --Methodology --- Social sciences --- Social philosophy --- Social theory --- History, Modern --- Historiography --- Methodology --- Philosophy --- Histoire --- --Philosophie --- --Méthodologie --- Possibility --- Philosophy. --- History - Philosophy. --- History - Methodology. --- Social sciences - Philosophy. --- Social sciences - Methodology. --- Arts and Humanities --- History - Methodology --- History - Philosophy --- Social sciences - Methodology --- Social sciences - Philosophy --- Philosophie --- Sciences sociales --- Méthodologie --- Methodology. --- Possibilité --- philosophie --- méthodologie

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Thucydides famously declared his work to be 'a possession for all time', and so it has proved to be, as each age and generation has seen new things to admire in it and take from it. In the last hundred years, Thucydides has been interpreted and invoked in support of many different positions in politics, political theory and international relations. Geoffrey Hawthorn offers a new and highly original reading, one that sees him as neither simply an ancestor nor a colleague but as an unsurpassed guide to a deeper realism about politics. In this account, Thucydides emerges as sensitive to the non-rational and the limits of human agency, sceptical about political speech, resistant to easy generalisations or theoretical reductions, and opposed to any practical, moral or constitutional closure in politics. The book will be of interest to students of politics and classics.

Political science --- History. --- Thucydides. --- Thucydides --- Thucydide --- Thukydides --- Thoukudides --- Greece --- History --- Politics, Practical. --- Electoral politics --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Politics --- Practical politics --- Political participation --- Tucidide --- Fukidid --- Tucídides --- Thoukydidēs --- תוקידידיס --- Θουκυδίδης

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Philosophy, Modern --- Sociology --- Sociology --- Sociology --- History --- History