Reflections on De Gaulle Political Founding in Modernity

by Morrisey, Will

• ISBN13: 9780761822172
• ISBN10: 0761822178
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-15
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

The 'battle of the books' between ancient and modern continues to have decidedly un-bookish consequences. The French Statesman Charles de Gaulle fought an incident in this war, founding a political regime in modernity whose principles transcended modern political philosophy. De Gaulle rejected both bourgeois democracy and anti-bourgeois totalitarianism, framing a republicanism hospitable to civic responsibility and human greatness. Reflections on De Gaulle, first published in 1983, remains the only book centered on textual interpretation of each of de Gaulle's major works, themselves part of his lifelong enterprise to bring a stable republican government to France. Will Morrisey examines de Gaulle's works, from La discorde chez l'ennemi, his incisive critique of the German elites' quasi-Nietzschean overreaching in the First World War, to MZmoires d'espoir, his magisterial account of the founding of the Fifth Republic. The text has been corrected and entirely reset in an attractive format for greater ease of use.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Permission to Quote	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
La discorde chez l'ennemi (1924)	p. 3
Moderation: Reflections on La discorde chez l'ennemi	p. 18
Le fil de l'epee (1932)	p. 31
Character and Magnanimity: Reflections on Le fil de l'epee	p. 50
Vers l'armee de metier (1934)	p. 57
The Force of War: Reflections on Vers l'armee de metier	p. 70
La France et son armee (1938)	p. 81
War and Politics: Reflections on La France et son armee	p. 96
Memoires de guerre (1854, 1956, 1959)	p. 107
Political Foundings: Reflections on Memoires de guerre	p. 143
Memoires d'espoir (1970)	p. 169
Founding and Education: Reflections on Memoires d'espoir	p. 199
De Gaulle's Military Epistemology: A note on Le fil de l'epee	p. 217
Notes	p. 221
Index	p. 261
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