Battling to the end [[electronic resource] ] : conversations with Benoît Chantre / / René Girard ; translated by Mary Baker

• Autore: Girard René <1923->
• Pubblicazione: East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.02
• Soggetto topico: War; Strategy; Military art and science
• Altri autori: ChantreBenoît
• Note generali: Based on discussions with Benoît Chantre.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Girard
• Titolo autorizzato: Battling to the end
• ISBN: 1-62895-055-2; 1-60917-133-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790241803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.