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Battling to the End: Conversations With Benoit Chantre (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture) - Softcover

Buch 4 von 54: Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture

Girard, René

 
9780870138775: Battling to the End: Conversations With Benoit Chantre (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0870138774 ISBN 13: 9780870138775
Verlag: Michigan State University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

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 shows us a Clausewitz who is a fascinated witness of history's acceleration. Haunted by the French-German conflict, Clausewitz clarifies more than anyone else the development that would ravage Europe. Battling to the End pushes aside the taboo that prevents us from seeing that the apocalypse has begun. Human violence is escaping our control; today it threatens the entire planet.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

René Girard is a member of the French Academy and Emeritus Professor at Stanford University. His books have been translated and acclaimed worldwide. He received the Modern Language Association's Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement in 2008.

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Verlag
Michigan State University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0870138774
ISBN 13 
9780870138775
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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