Battling to the end :: conversations with Benoît Chantre /

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 politi...

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Main Author: Girard, René, 1923-2015
Other Authors: Chantre, Benoît
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2010.
Series:Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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
Item Description:Based on discussions with Benoît Chantre.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 237 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781609171339
1609171330
9781628950557
1628950552
9781628960556
1628960558

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