Battling to the End

by Girard, Rene

• ISBN13: 9780870138775
• ISBN10: 0870138774
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-10
• Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr

Summary

In Battling to the End Ren 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.

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 Lifetime Achievement Award (2008). His books have been translated widely: Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1965); Violence and the Sacred (1977); The Scapegoat (1986); Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World (1987); A Theater of Envy: William Shakespeare (1991); I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (2001); Oedipus unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire (2004). Benot Chantre is President of l'Association Recherches Mimtiques.

Table of Contents

A Note on the Translation	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
The Escalation to Extremes	p. 1
Clausewitz and Hegel	p. 27
Duel and Reciprocity	p. 53
The Duel and the Sacred	p. 77
Holderlin's Sorrow	p. 109
Clausewitz and Napoleon	p. 137
France and Germany	p. 157
The Pope and the Emperor	p. 195
Epilogue	p. 211
Notes	p. 219
Index	p. 231
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