The Ultimate Experience

TRAMA

For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.

SOMMARIO

Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION – WAR AS REVELATION, 1865-2000 PART II: 1450-1740 – THE SUPREMACY OF MIND Suffering, Death and Revelation in Early Modern Culture The Absence of Revelation from Early Modern Military Memoirs Why War Revealed Nothing PART III: 1740-1865 – THE REVOLT OF THE BODY Bodies Begin to Think The Rise of the Common Soldier The Rise of the Revelatory Interpretation of War Conclusions: The Things Which Make You Know, 1865-2000 Works Cited

AUTORE

YUVAL NOAH HARARI  is a military historian specializing in the study of war experience and war culture. He lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781349358670
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm Ø 513 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: XV, 386 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 386
• Pagine Romane: xv