This study traces textual elements in Thucydides' Histories that lead to the emergence of another problematic related to reading the eventfulness narrated by the work; more precisely: this study focuses its attention on the eventfulness when it escapes or even evades its reduction to the universal, to representation, within the framework of the pseudo-dialectics of the universal — specific; it is about the eventfulness–war, about the eventfulness–war with privileged references to reason and violence, which indeed allow for a radically different reading and, therefore, for the restoration of it as a continuous flow of becoming, as a becoming–continuum. This reading is attempted within the framework of another, innovative, dialectic, beyond the pseudo-dialectics of the universal — specific and its expressions (Platonic, Hegelian, Marxist): within the framework of reflective dialectics, which takes the form of reflective dialectics of reason and violence within the Histories, not of images but of the crystallizations of reason and violence; however, the event of revealing this dialectic permits, in turn, the recasting of the materiality, the gravity, the depth, and the corporeality of the reception of the eventfulness by the subject.

This recasting, achieved through the reflective dialectics of reason and violence, seems to offer the historical reality, thus: also, the historical possibility, of denying the reduction of the perception of the world by the subject to the superficiality and lightness of the universal-representation, as well as denying the subjective-folding into the universal — as emerges again from the Histories — which diminishes multiple aspects, textually, values, epistemic and ontological, the specific subject; precisely because of all these, the reflective dialectic of reason and violence has the strength and, consequently, the possibility to serve as an exemplary model for achieving the social and political action of the subject as immediate and spontaneous, within the social and political eventfulness–war, elegantly concealed or crudely overt war.