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Clausewitz in His Time
Essays in the Cultural and Intellectual History of Thinking about War
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Clausewitz in His Time
Essays in the Cultural and Intellectual History of Thinking about War
About this book
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 comprehensive theory that continues to challenge our thinking about war today.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 — Text and Context: Two Paths to Clausewitz
- 2 — A Learned Officer among Others
- Illustrations
- 3 — Frederick the Great as Interpreted by Clausewitz and Schlieffen
- 4 — From Ideal to Ambiguity: Johannes von Müller, Clausewitz, and the People in Arms
- 5 — "Half against My Will, I Have Become a Professor"
- 6 — Two Historians on Defeat in War and Its Causes
- Bibliography
- Index of Texts
- Name Index