Enlightened war
Subtitle: German theories and cultures of warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz
By: edited by Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781571134950
Subjects: War (Philosophy); Intellectual life; War and society; War in literature; Enlightenment; War and literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Writing war and the aesthetics of political literature in the 1790s: Daniel Jenisch's (un)timely seven years' war epic Borussias / Johannes Birgfeld; title: 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; title: War, anecdotes, and the backsides of reason: Kleist with Kant / Galili Shahar; title: "Schon wieder krieg! der kluge horts nicht gern": Goethe, warfare, and Faust II / Elisabeth Krimmer; title: Recoding the ethics of war in Grimms' Fairy tales / Patricia Anne Simpson; title: War and gender. On gender wars and amazons : Therese Huber on terror and revolution / Inge Stephan; title: Angelica Kauffmann's War heroes : (not) painting war in a culture of sensibility / Waltraud Maierhofer; title: Citizen-soldiers : general conscription in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Ute Frevert; title: War and theory. Just war and perpetual peace : Kant on the legitimate use of political violence / David Colclasure; title: Military intelligence : on Carl von Clausewitz's Hermeneutics of disturbance and probability / Arndt Niebisch; title: 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.