Dialectics of War
Author | : Martin Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Martin Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martin Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : War and society |
ISBN | : 9780745302492 |
Author | : Rick McPeak |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801465893 |
In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and portrays the history and military strategy of its time in a manner that offers lessons for the soldiers of today. To mark the two hundredth anniversary of the French invasion of Russia and acknowledge the importance of Tolstoy's novel for our historical memory of its central events, Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin have assembled a distinguished group of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds-literary criticism, history, social science, and philosophy-to provide fresh readings of the novel. The essays in Tolstoy On War focus primarily on the novel's depictions of war and history, and the range of responses suggests that these remain inexhaustible topics of debate. The result is a volume that opens fruitful new avenues of understanding War and Peace while providing a range of perspectives and interpretations without parallel in the vast literature on the novel.
Author | : Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780745303567 |
Author | : Youri Cormier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Dialectic |
ISBN | : |
While exploring a convergence in their understanding of the dialectic, the thesis will explore how the two arrived as mutually-exclusive ethics: Clausewitz understood war as the 'instrument' of a responsible agent, the state, whereas Hegel's concept of war was imbued with self-justification, as a 'right' of the state. A likely root of the disagreement is proposed: the distinct understanding of either Hegel or Clausewitz with regard to the concepts 'subjectivity' and 'objectivity'. Having drawn this tentative conclusion regarding the how and the why a convergence and divergence coexists, the text proceeds to explore how this would live out in real life, by providing what appears to be the most purified example of the material manifestation of this ethical divide on fighting doctrines. While the communists 'connected' with Clausewitz, the anarchists shunned him altogether and connected instead with Hegel. Despite fighting for a single cause, these two groups were split ethically and strategically on the very diagonal that cuts across Hegel and Clausewitz. This empirical study allows us to grasp in concrete terms, actual, categorical limits to 'instrumentality' and 'right' in justifying modem secular war.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Dialectic |
ISBN | : |
While exploring a convergence in their understanding of the dialectic, the thesis will explore how the two arrived as mutually-exclusive ethics: Clausewitz understood war as the 'instrument' of a responsible agent, the state, whereas Hegel's concept of war was imbued with self-justification, as a 'right' of the state. A likely root of the disagreement is proposed: the distinct understanding of either Hegel or Clausewitz with regard to the concepts 'subjectivity' and 'objectivity'. Having drawn this tentative conclusion regarding the how and the why a convergence and divergence coexists, the text proceeds to explore how this would live out in real life, by providing what appears to be the most purified example of the material manifestation of this ethical divide on fighting doctrines. While the communists 'connected' with Clausewitz, the anarchists shunned him altogether and connected instead with Hegel. Despite fighting for a single cause, these two groups were split ethically and strategically on the very diagonal that cuts across Hegel and Clausewitz. This empirical study allows us to grasp in concrete terms, actual, categorical limits to 'instrumentality' and 'right' in justifying modem secular war.
Author | : Paul K. Crosser |
Publisher | : B.R. Gruner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Youri Cormier |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0773548505 |
Two centuries after Carl von Clausewitz wrote On War, it lines the shelves of military colleges around the world and even showed up in an Al Qaeda hideout. Though it has shaped much of the common parlance on the subject, On War is perceived by many as a “metaphysical fog,” widely known but hardly read. In War as Paradox, Youri Cormier lifts the fog on this iconic work by explaining its philosophical underpinnings. Building up a genealogy of dialectical war theory and integrating Hegel with Clausewitz as a co-founders of the method, Cormier uncovers a common logic that shaped the fighting doctrines and ethics of modern war. He explains how Hegel and Clausewitz converged on method, but nonetheless arrived at opposite ethics and military doctrines. Ultimately, Cormier seeks out the limits to dialectical war theory and explores the greater paradoxes the method reveals: can so-called “rational” theories of war hold up under the pressures of irrational propositions, such as lone-wolf attacks, the circular logic of a “war to end all wars,” or the apparent folly of mutually assured destruction? Since the Second World War, commentators have described war as obsolete. War as Paradox argues that dialectical war theory may be the key to understanding why, despite this, it continues.
Author | : John Molyneux |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1642592137 |
To the question of &lquo;what is art?&rquo;, it is often simply responded that art is whatever is produced by the artist. For John Molyneux, this clearly circular answer is deeply unsatisfying. In a tour de force spanning renaissance Italy and the Dutch Republic to contemporary leading figures, The Dialectics of Art instead approaches its subject matter as a distinct field of creative human labour that emerges alongside and in opposition to the alienation and commodification brought about by capitalism. The pieces and individuals Molyneux examines — from Michelangelo’s Slaves to Rembrandts Jewish Bride to the vast drip paintings of Jackson Pollock – are presented as embodying the social contradictions of their times, giving art an inherently political relevance. In its relationship of creative and dialectical tension to prevailing social relationships and norms, such art points beyond the existing order of things, hinting at a potential future society not based on alienated labour in which creative production becomes the property and practice of all.
Author | : Geoffrey F. Weiss |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 890 |
Release | : 2021-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108943810 |
Many of war's lethal failures are attributable to ignorance caused by a dearth of contemporary, accessible theory to inform warfighting, strategy, and policy. To remedy this problem, Colonel Geoffrey F. Weiss offers an ambitious new survey of war's nature, character, and future in the tradition of Sun Tzu and Clausewitz. He begins by melding philosophical and military concepts to reveal war's origins and to analyze war theory's foundational ideas. Then, leveraging science, philosophy, and the wisdom of war's master theorists, Colonel Weiss presents a genuinely original framework and lexicon that characterizes and clarifies the relationships between humanity, politics, strategy, and combat; explains how and why war changes form; offers a methodology for forecasting future war; and ponders the permanence of war as a human activity. The New Art of War is an indispensable guide for understanding human conflict that will change how we think and communicate about war.