War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: September 3, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781586480493
Subjects: Military history, Modern; Philosophy; Politics/International Relations; Military History (General); Ethics Of War And Conflict; War (Philosophy); History - Military / War; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Military Science; Military - General; Current Events; Military History; Military Affairs; War; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; 20th century; Hedges, Chris
Description: "Drawing on the literature of combat, from Homer and Shakespeare to Erich Maria Remarque and Michael Herr, Hedges shows how human beings are conditioned to embrace what he calls "the myth of war" - the idea that combat is noble, selfless, and glorious. And yet if human history is any guide, nations and imperiums have stumbled and even fallen when they believed the myths peddled about war and about themselves.

The reality of war, which Hedges knows first-hand, is about the destruction of culture, the perversion of human desire, and the embrace, ultimately, of death over life."--BOOK JACKET.