War and the illiberal conscience, Christopher Coker

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War and the illiberal conscience, Christopher Coker

Statement of responsibility

Christopher Coker

Instantiates

• War and the illiberal conscience

Publication

• Boulder, Colo. | Oxford, Westview, 1998

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

• 1. War and the Liberal Conscience. G. K. Chesterton and the English Tradition. Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf? The English and Philosophical Quackery. The Problem of Not Reading Nietzsche Correctly. The Liberal Temper. War and the Liberal Consciousness -- 2. War and Peace. A Jew on Horseback: Isaac Babel and the Russian Civil War. Ernst Junger and the War Machine. Curzio Malaparte on the Eastern Front -- 3. A People Without a History. A People with a History: Hegel and the German Nation. A People Without a History: Liberal America and the Winning of the West. Jung and the Reversion to Barbarism. History and Self-Victimisation -- 4. War and Nationalism. Max Weber and the Destiny of the German People. Catastrophism and the Agony of Poland. Gramsci and National Liberation Wars. George Orwell and the Myth of England -- 5. The Will to Power. On Napoleon and Napoleonism. Bergson and the 'Elan Vital'. Wittgenstein and the Sanction of Battle. Sade and the Brotherhood of Man
• 6. War and the Illiberal Unconscious. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the Pathology of Hunting. Moosbrugger, Serial Murder and the Enemy Within. Child Abuse in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna and the Totalitarian Mentality. The Identity Crisis and European Nationalism -- 7. War, the Liberal Conscience and the Postmodern Era. The Postrevolutionary Age. The Posthistorical Agenda. A Postmilitary Society. Conclusion: Liberalism and the Tragic Spirit

Control code

000013913892

Dimensions

24 cm

Extent

xvi, 240 p.

Isbn

9780813333694

Isbn Type

(hc : alk. paper)

Lccn

98153063

System control number

• (OCoLC)39184957
• ms29358073