Clausewitz in His Time : Essays in the Cultural and Intellectual History of Thinking about War （Library Binding）

Paret, Peter

Berghahn Books（2014/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 150 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781782385813
• DDC分類 355.0209034

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Text and Context:  Two Ways to Clausewitz

A Learned Officer among Others

Frederick the Great and his Interpreters Clausewitz and Schlieffen - Three Phases in the History of Strategy

From Ideal to Ambiguity:  Johannes von Müller, Clausewitz, and the People in Arms

Half against my Will I have become a Professor"

Two Historians on Defeat and Its Causes

Bibliography

Index