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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Krimmer, Elisabeth, 1967-, Simpson, Patricia Anne, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, ©2011.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Temas:
1700-1899
War and society > Germany > History > 18th century.
War and society > Germany > History > 19th century.
War (Philosophy) > History > 18th century.
War (Philosophy) > History > 19th century.
War and literature > Germany.
War in literature.
Enlightenment > Germany.
Guerre et société > Allemagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Guerre et société > Allemagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Guerre (Philosophie) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Guerre (Philosophie) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Guerre et littérature > Allemagne.
Guerre dans la littérature.
Siècle des Lumières > Allemagne.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Peace.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Enlightenment.
Intellectual life.
War and literature.
War and society.
War (Philosophy)
Germany > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Germany > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Allemagne > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
Allemagne > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
Germany.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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