By taking an entirely different path and attempting a completely different type of analysis, Kostas Zouraris comes to demonstrate that the Thucydidean reading of history not only presupposes a tragic reading of the world but, much more so, that this is the only possible historical and political science.

The only 'possible'? Let's put it better, the only one that can, within a strict logical and epistemological framework, claim the absolute measure of rigorous and precise scientificity.

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