Battling to the End

Conversations with Benoit Chantre

By:

Rene Girard

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture

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In this title, Rene Girard shows us a Clausewitz who is a fascinated witness of history's acceleration. In "Battling to the End", Rene Girard engages Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote "On War". Clausewitz, who has been critiqued by military strategists, political scientists, and philosophers, famously postulated that 'War is the continuation of politics by other means'. He also seemed to believe that governments could constrain war. Clausewitz, a firsthand witness to the Napoleonic Wars, understood the nature of modern warfare. Far from controlling violence, politics follows in war's wake: the means of war have become its ends. Rene Girard shows us a Clausewitz who is a fascinated witness of history's acceleration. Haunted by the French-German conflict, Clausewitz clarifies more than anyone else the development that would ravage Europe. "Battling to the End" pushes aside the taboo that prevents us from seeing that the apocalypse has begun. Human violence is escaping our control; today it threatens the entire planet.

Author Biography:

Rene Girard is a member of the French Academy and Emeritus Professor at Stanford University. He is the recipient of the Modern Language Association's 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award. Benoit Chantre is President of l'Association Recherches Mimetiques.

Release date Australia

December 30th, 2009

Author

Rene Girard

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

notes, references, index

Pages

237

Series

Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture

Dimensions

152x229x23

ISBN-13

9780870138775

Product ID

4036131

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