The languages of epidemic

2021

Volume №22

Issue 2

Section: Философия

Kukso Kseniia Aleksandrovna

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophical Anthropology and History of Philosophy, Institute of Human Philosophy, Herzen State Pedagogical University of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Fellow, Sociological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, a branch of the Federal Research Sociological Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

DOI:

10.25991/VRHGA.2021.22.2.011

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Annotation

The comprehension of the epidemic experience in classical Greece is analyzed in the article. The foundations of the «discovery» of this topic are determined in various traditions of thinking of the period are investigated. Also the specificity of the articulation of the nature of epidemics presented in the works of Hippocrates and Thucydides is analyzed and its paradigmatic role for subsequent narrations about epidemic disasters. The author clarifies the conditions predetermined the originality epidemic reports of Hippocrates and Thucydides and their colossal impact on the later narrations about epidemic experience.

Keywords

epidemic, natural disaster, basics of epidemic’s understanding, narration, Hippocrates, Thucydides, social history of epidemic, common causes, disintegration of the social.

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