In "Battling to the End "Rene Girard engages Carl von Clausewitz (17801831), 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.
Human violence is escaping our control; today it threatens the entire planet.". "Battling to the End "pushes aside the taboo that prevents us from seeing that the apocalypse has begun.
Haunted by the French-German conflict, Clausewitz clarifies more than anyone else the development that would ravage Europe.
Rene Girard shows us a Clausewitz who is a fascinated witness of history\'s acceleration.
Far from controlling violence, politics follows in war\'s wake: the means of war have become its ends.
Clausewitz, a firsthand witness to the Napoleonic Wars, understood the nature of modern warfare.
In "Battling to the End "Rene Girard engages Carl von Clausewitz (17801831), 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
