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Tragedy and World Systems Theory by tcgriffin 28 August 2002 21:05 UTC |
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Given the striking way that Nemesis seems to be overtaking American capitalism after the hubris of the 1990s, does anyone on this list, think that the worldview of Greek tragedy has anything in common with a world systems approach. After all, it is this worldview which Herodotus and Thucydides applied to explain the hegemonic cycle in the case of Persia and Athens. Could the cycle of hubris and nemesis perhaps be compared to an evolutionary learning process of conjecture and refutation? This essay by Francis Cornford (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Thucydides/Cornford/CTOC.html) may throw some light on the issue, in the case of Thucydides. As for Herodotus, maybe the father of history, was also the father of World systems theory?
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