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

Author
Girard, René, 1923-2015
Uniform Title
Achever Clausewitz. English
Published
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 237 pages).
Additional Creators
Chantre, Benoît
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Language Note
Translation of Achever Clausewitz, published: Paris : Carnets nord, 2007.
Contents
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.
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
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9781609171339 (electronic bk.)
1609171330 (electronic bk.)
9781628950557 (electronic bk.)
1628950552 (electronic bk.)
9781628960556 (electronic bk.)
1628960558 (electronic bk.)
9780870138775 (pbk. alk. paper)
0870138774 (pbk. alk. paper)
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Note
Based on discussions with Benoît Chantre.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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