Enlightened war : German theories and cultures of warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz / edited by Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2011.
Description
viii, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction : enlightened warfare in eighteenth-century Germany / Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson. War and enlightenment. Point of recognition: enemy, neighbor, and next of kin in the era of Frederick the Great / Sara Eigen Figal
    • Writing war and the aesthetics of political literature in the 1790s: Daniel Jenisch's (un)timely seven years' war epic Borussias / Johannes Birgfeld
    • Cultures of war in classicism and romanticism. Agamemnon on the battlefield of Leipzig: Wilhelm von Humboldt on ancient warriors, modern heroes, and bildung through war / Felix Saure
    • War, anecdotes, and the backsides of reason: Kleist with Kant / Galili Shahar
    • "Schon wieder krieg! der kluge horts nicht gern": Goethe, warfare, and Faust II / Elisabeth Krimmer
    • Recoding the ethics of war in Grimms' Fairy tales / Patricia Anne Simpson
    • War and gender. On gender wars and amazons : Therese Huber on terror and revolution / Inge Stephan
    • Angelica Kauffmann's War heroes : (not) painting war in a culture of sensibility / Waltraud Maierhofer
    • Citizen-soldiers : general conscription in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Ute Frevert
    • War and theory. Just war and perpetual peace : Kant on the legitimate use of political violence / David Colclasure
    • Military intelligence : on Carl von Clausewitz's Hermeneutics of disturbance and probability / Arndt Niebisch
    • Host nations : Carl von Clausewitz and the new U.S. Army-Marine Corps field manual, FM 3-24, MCWP 3-33.5, counterinsurgency / Wolf Kittler.
    ISBN
    • 9781571134950 (alk. paper)
    • 1571134956 (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2010046131
    OCLC
    642845346
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