Clausewitz in his time : essays in the cultural and intellectual history of thinking about war / Peter Paret.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Berghahn Books, [2015]Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (vii, 134 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9781782385820
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- Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831 -- Influence
- Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831
- Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831
- Military art and science -- History
- War (Philosophy) -- History
- Art et science militaires -- Histoire
- Guerre (Philosophie) -- Histoire
- HISTORY -- Military -- Other
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science
- HISTORY -- Military -- Strategy
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Military art and science
- War (Philosophy)
- 355.02 23
- U43.R9 .P37 2015eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-130) and index.
Text and context: two ways to Clausewitz -- A learned officer among others -- Frederick the Great and his interpreters Clausewitz and Schlieffen -- Phases in the history of strategy -- From ideal to ambiguity: Johannes von Miller, Clausewitz -- And the people in arms -- "Half against my will I have become a professor" -- Two historians on defeat and its causes.
Print version record.
Anything but a detached theorist, Clausewitz was as fully engaged in the intellectual and cultural currents of his time as in its political and military conflicts. Late-eighteenth century thought helped shape the analytic methods he developed for the study of war. The essays in this volume follow his career in a complex military society, together with that of other students of war, both friends and rivals, providing a broad perspective that leads to significant documents so far unknown or ignored. They add to our understanding of Clausewitz's early ideas and their expansion into a comprehensi.
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