Battling to the end : conversations with Benoît Chantre
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Battling to the end : conversations with Benoît Chantre
（Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture series / series editor, William A. Johnsen）
Michigan State University Press, c2010
- pbk. : alk. paper
- pbk. : alk. paper
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Achever Clausewitz
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Achever Clausewitz
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Translation of Achever Clausewitz, published: Paris : Carnets nord, 2007
Based on discussions with Benoît Chantre
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- The escalation to extremes
- Clausewitz and Hegel
- Duel and reciprocity
- The duel and the sacred
- Hölderlin's sorrow
- Clausewitz and Napoleon
- France and Germany
- The pope and the emperor
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Description
In this title, Rene Girard shows us a Clausewitz who is a fascinated witness of history's acceleration. Rene Girard engages Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote On War. Clausewitz, who has been critiqued by military strategists, political scientists, and philosophers, famously postulated that 'War is the continuation of politics by other means'. He also seemed to believe that governments could constrain war. Clausewitz, a firsthand witness to the Napoleonic Wars, understood the nature of modern warfare. Far from controlling violence, politics follows in war's wake: the means of war have become its ends.
Rene Girard shows us a Clausewitz who is a fascinated witness of history's acceleration. Haunted by the French-German conflict, Clausewitz clarifies more than anyone else the development that would ravage Europe. Battling to the End pushes aside the taboo that prevents us from seeing that the apocalypse has begun. Human violence is escaping our control; today it threatens the entire planet.
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