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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818960303321

Autore

Paret Peter

Titolo

Clausewitz in his time : essays in the cultural and intellectual history of thinking about war / / Peter Paret

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-582-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 p.)

Disciplina

355.02

Soggetti

Military art and science - History

War (Philosophy) - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Text and context: two ways to Clausewitz -- A learned officer among others -- Frederick the Great and his interpreters Clausewitz and Schlieffen -- Phases in the history of strategy -- From ideal to ambiguity: Johannes von Miller, Clausewitz -- And the people in arms -- "Half against my will I have become a professor" -- Two historians on defeat and its causes.

Sommario/riassunto

Anything but a detached theorist, Clausewitz was as fully engaged in the intellectual and cultural currents of his time as in its political and military conflicts. Late-eighteenth century thought helped shape the analytic methods he developed for the study of war. The essays in this volume follow his career in a complex military society, together with that of other students of war, both friends and rivals, providing a broad perspective that leads to significant documents so far unknown or ignored. They add to our understanding of Clausewitz's early ideas and their expansion into a comprehensi