Enlightened war : German theories and cultures of warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz
Enlightenment discourse developed during a period of prolonged European warfare. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, it is marked by its proximity to war. Enlightened War investigates the multiple and comp...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Rochester, NY [u.a.] : Camden House,
2011
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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| Schlagworte: | War and literature War and society War (Philosophy) Enlightenment War in literature War (Philosophy) -- History -- 18th century War (Philosophy) -- History -- 19th century War and literature -- Germany War and society -- Germany -- History -- 18th century War and society -- Germany -- History -- 19th century mehr... |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource (xi, 348 p) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- INTRODUCTION: Enlightened Warfare in Eighteenth-Century Germany; Part I: War and Enlightenment; 1: The Point of Recognition: Enemy, Neighbor, and Next of Kin in the Era of Frederick the Great; 2: Writing War and the Aesthetics of Political Literature in the 1790s: Daniel Jenisch's (Un)timely Seven Years' War Epic Borussias; Part II: Cultures of War in Classicism and Romanticism; 3: Agamemnon on the Battlefield of Leipzig: Wilhelm von Humboldt on Ancient Warriors, Modern Heroes, and Bildung through War
- 4: War, Anecdotes, and the Backsides of Reason: Kleist with Kant Galili Shahar5: "Schon wieder Krieg! Der Kluge hörts nicht gern": Goethe, Warfare, and Faust II; 6: Recoding the Ethics of War in Grimms' Fairy Tales; Part III: War and Gender; 7: On Gender Wars and Amazons: Therese Huber on Terror and Revolution; 8: Angelica Kauffmann's War Heroes: (Not) Painting War in a Culture of Sensibility; 9: Citizen-Soldiers: General Conscription in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Part IV: War and Theory; 10: Just War and Perpetual Peace: Kant on the Legitimate Use of Political Violence
- 11: Military Intelligence: On Carl von Clausewitz's Hermeneutics of Disturbance and Probability12: Host Nations: Carl von Clausewitz and the New U.S. Army/Marine Corps Field Manual, FM 3-24, MCWP 3-33.5, Counterinsurgency