War Machine

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ISBN: 9780300067194 | 0300067194
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 5/1/1996

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This fascinating book examines Western perceptions of war in and beyond the nineteenth century, surveying the writings of novelists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, poets, natural scientists, and journalists to trace the origins of modern philosophies about the nature of war and conflict.

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Acknowledgements
A Note on the Text
Introduction	p. 1
Cobden's Critique of War	p. 19
Clausewitz and Friction	p. 28
Proudhon's War and Peace	p. 42
Engels and the Devouring War of the Future	p. 48
De Quincey's 'Most Romantic of All Romances'	p. 59
Ruskin and the Degradation of True War	p. 65
The Biology of War	p. 75
The Wake of 1870	p. 88
'The Prussian Race Ethnologically Considered'	p. 88
Transfigurations	p. 97
The Driverless Train	p. 106
War's Saturnalia	p. 110
Tunnel Visions	p. 115
1914: The 'Deep Sources'	p. 136
The Rationalisation of Slaughter	p. 165
Time and Motion	p. 165
'The Voice of the Machines'	p. 175
The Perfect Abattoir	p. 178
'The Unnatural and Terrible Wall of the War'	p. 189
'The Revolt of the Machines'	p. 205
'Why War?'	p. 211
Reich's 'Machine Murder'	p. 211
Freud-Einstein	p. 214
Anxiety and Mastery	p. 227
'All my libido...'	p. 239
The Psychopathology of Everyday Death	p. 243
Seismic Shifts?	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 271
Index	p. 287
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