Enlightened war : German theories and cultures of warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz
Introduction : enlightened warfare in eighteenth-century Germany / Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson. War and enlightenment. Point of recognition: enemy, neighbor, and next of kin in the era of Frederick the Great / Sara Eigen Figal -- Writing war and the aesthetics of political literature...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Rochester, NY [u.a.] : Camden House,
2011
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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| Schlagworte: | War and society War (Philosophy) War and literature War in literature Enlightenment Deutschland Krieg Theorie Geschichte 1770-1830 Künste mehr... |
| Umfang: | VIII, 348 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : enlightened warfare in eighteenth-century Germany Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson. War and enlightenment. Point of recognition: enemy, neighbor, and next of kin in the era of Frederick the Great / Sara Eigen Figal
- Writing war and the aesthetics of political literature in the 1790s: Daniel Jenisch's (un)timely seven years' war epic Borussias Johannes Birgfeld
- Cultures of war in classicism and romanticism. Agamemnon on the battlefield of Leipzig: Wilhelm von Humboldt on ancient warriors, modern heroes, and bildung through war Felix Saure
- War, anecdotes, and the backside of reason: Kleist with Kant Galili Shahar
- "Schon wieder krieg! der kluge horts nicht gern": Goethe, warfare, and Faust II Elisabeth Krimmer
- Recoding the ethics of war in Grimms' Fairy tales Patricia Anne Simpson
- War and gender. On gender wars and amazons : Therese Huber on terror and revolution Inge Stephan
- Angelica Kauffmann's War heroes : (not) painting war in a culture of sensibility Waltraud Maierhofer
- Citizen-soldiers : general conscription in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Ute Frevert
- War and theory. Just war and perpetual peace : Kant on the legitimate use of political violence David Colclasure
- Military intelligence : on Carl von Clausewitz's Hermeneutics of disturbance and probability Arndt Niebisch
- Host nations : Carl von Clausewitz and the new U.S. Army-Marine Corps field manual, FM 3-24, MCWP 3-33.5, counterinsurgency Wolf Kittler.