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

Published Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages) Series Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture 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 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 Summary Enlightenment discourse developed during a period of prolonged European warfare. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, it is marked by its proximity to war. Enlightened War investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought, making a case for their ideological affinity. The essays are interdisciplinary, engaging with history, art history, philosophy, military theory, gender studies, and literature and with historical events and cultural contexts from the early Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-334) and index Notes English Print version record Subject War and society -- Germany -- History -- 18th century War and society -- Germany -- History -- 19th century War (Philosophy) -- History -- 18th century War (Philosophy) -- History -- 19th century War and literature -- Germany War in literature. Enlightenment -- Germany POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German. Enlightenment Intellectual life War and literature War and society War in literature War (Philosophy) SUBJECT Germany -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054608 Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054609 Subject Germany Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Krimmer, Elisabeth, 1967- Simpson, Patricia Anne, 1958- LC no. 2010046131 ISBN 9781571137630 1571137637 9781571138644 1571138641 1282994158 9781282994157 9786612994159 6612994150

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