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Title:

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

Publisher:

Camden House,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

viii, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

War and society--Germany--History--18th century.
War and society--Germany--History--19th century.
Germany--Intellectual life--18th century
Germany--Intellectual life--19th century
War (Philosophy)--History--18th century.
War (Philosophy)--History--19th century.
War and literature--Germany.
War in literature
Enlightenment--Germany.

Other Authors:

Krimmer, Elisabeth, 1967-
Simpson, Patricia Anne, 1958-

Notes:

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.

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

ISBN:

1571134956 (alk. paper)
9781571134950 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)642845346

LCCN:

2010046131

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)