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Enlightened war : German theories and cultures of warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz

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Data Type :	단행본
ISBN :	9781571134950 (alk. paper)
ISBN :	1571134956 (alk. paper)
Title/Author :	Enlightened war : German theories and cultures of warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz / edited by Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson.
Imprint :	Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011.
Format :	viii, 348 p.; 24 cm.
Total Title Note :	Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Note :	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Note :	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 backside 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.
General Subject Name :	War and society -- Germany -- History -- 18th century. --
General Subject Name :	War and society -- Germany -- History -- 19th century. --
General Subject Name :	War (Philosophy) -- History -- 18th century. --
General Subject Name :	War (Philosophy) -- History -- 19th century. --
General Subject Name :	War and literature -- Germany. --
General Subject Name :	War in literature. --
General Subject Name :	Enlightenment -- Germany. --
Subject(Place) :	Germany Intellectual life 18th century.
Subject(Place) :	Germany Intellectual life 19th century.
Personal Author :	Krimmer, Elisabeth, 1967-,
Personal Author :	Simpson, Patricia Anne, 1958-,
Class No. :	303.660943
Language	English