02660nam 2200637 a 450 991080720940332120240416205106.01-62895-055-21-60917-133-0(CKB)2670000000185864(EBL)1810012(SSID)ssj0000626500(PQKBManifestationID)11377295(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000626500(PQKBWorkID)10658688(PQKB)11118576(OCoLC)794491318(MdBmJHUP)muse18514(Au-PeEL)EBL3338251(CaPaEBR)ebr10554584(OCoLC)923249624(MiAaPQ)EBC3338251(EXLCZ)99267000000018586420090804d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBattling to the end conversations with Benoît Chantre /René Girard ; translated by Mary Baker1st ed.East Lansing Michigan State University Press20101 online resource (257 p.)Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture seriesBased on discussions with Benoît Chantre.0-87013-877-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.In Battling to the End René 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. René GirardStudies in violence, mimesis, and culture.WarStrategyMilitary art and scienceWar.Strategy.Military art and science.355.02Girard René1923-386685Chantre Benoît761634MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807209403321Battling to the end4111352UNINA