Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of TerrorismPrinceton University Press, 10 янв. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 272 America is at war with terrorism. Terrorists must be brought to justice. |
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... lives and our futures on the line. Without a firm understanding of the miliary actions taken in our name, we cannot be at ease; we cannot allow others to risk their lives and allow our opponents to die without knowing why. Let us think ...
... lives. Justifying war demands less of our moral sensitivities. Abraham Lincoln insisted on war against the eleven rebellious states not because the Union was a righteous cause but simply because it existed. The logic was simple: The ...
... live with a certain ambiguity. To put our quandaries in an historical context, I shall argue that those sympathetic to war in our time are heirs to the Romantic tradition. We are the children of William Wordsworth's and Johann Gottlieb ...
... lives of heroes bound together in the brotherhood of battle. Consider that Joseph Ellis, best-selling historian and professor at Mount Holyoke College, made up stories of his heroic military adventures to please his students. It would ...
... lives on. Now it is called war. The peculiar appeal of military violence brings to bear the Romantic view of the world that prevailed in Europe in the early nineteenth century, when the resistance against Napoleon and the affirmation of ...
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Collective Crime | 44 |
The Guilt of Nations | 71 |
Individuals at War | 92 |
Guilty Relations | 117 |
Romantic Perversions | 139 |
Distributing Guilt | 157 |
Shadows of the Past | 179 |
Living with Guilt | 196 |
Notes | 215 |
Index | 241 |
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