Bodily Grace and Consciousness: from the Enlightenment to Romanticism

Curran, Jane V.

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“…In his 1793 essay Anmut und Würde [Grace and Dignity] Schiller aimed to de-mechanize the soul while at the same time retaining its synthetic connection with the body: grace is physical beauty in motion, animated by the soul. 65 There are echoes of this antimechanistic impetus in Clausewitz's letter to Fichte, where he repeatedly pitched the moral forces of the individual against the mechanical, over-rationalized machine-like tendencies of eighteenth century military organization. 66 However, since Schiller's aesthetic theory is inherently a theory of morality, the significance of the soul for Schiller went further.…”

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‘The most beautiful of wars’: Carl von Clausewitz and small wars

Scheipers

2016

Eur j.of int. secur.

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Carl von Clausewitz was both an avid analyst of small wars and people's war and, during the wars of liberation, a practitioner of small war. While Clausewitz scholars have increasingly recognised the centrality of small wars for Clausewitz's thought, the sources and inspirations of his writings on small wars have remained understudied. This article contextualises Clausewitz's thought on small wars and people's war in the tradition of German philosophical and aesthetic discourses around 1800. It shows how Clausewitz developed core concepts such as the integration of passion and reason and the idea of war in its 'absolute perfection' as a regulative ideal in the framework of his works on small wars and people's war. Contextualising Clausewitz inevitably distances him from the twenty-first-century strategic context, but, as this article shows, it can help us to ask pertinent questions about the configuration of society, the armed forces and the government in today's Western states.

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confidence: 99%