Die preußische Kriegstheorie um 1800 und ihre Suche nach dynamischen Gleichgewichten

Kuhle, Arthur

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“…70 Indeed, Clausewitz had tried to integrate Bülow's more pacifistic approach -even though with only limited success. 71 Recently, Sibylle Scheipers has convincingly argued that Clausewitz's attempts to find a reconciliation of passion and reason in his theory of war have led him to an intense '"dialogue" with the German aesthetic discourse around 1800', more particularly with the aesthetics of Kant and Schiller. This may give a further clue to explain the deep trench between the dynamistic approach of Berenhorst and Bülow on the one hand and Clausewitz on the other hand.…”

Section: Adam Heinrich Dietrich Von Bülow (1763-1807)mentioning

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War without contact: Berenhorst, Bülow, and the avoidance of violence as the core paradigm of military science

Kuhle

2020

War in History

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Georg Heinrich von Berenhorst and Dietrich von Bülow were perhaps the most inspirational war theorists of the late eighteenth century. Following Berenhorst, Bülow developed a theory that interpreted war as a dynamic system without physical contact, prompting Carl von Clausewitz to write a crushing critique that up to the present day obfuscates Bülow’s ideas. However, Clausewitz’s critique is based on a fundamental misconception, which illustrates how this decisive swerve in war theory continues to be neglected. This article demonstrates how Berenhorst and Bülow strived for introducing Newtonian standards to human behaviour for a pacifist theory of war.

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Section: Adam Heinrich Dietrich Von Bülow (1763-1807)mentioning

confidence: 99%