Enlightened War

ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. WOLF KITTLER is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published widely with monographs on Franz Kafka and Heinrich von Kleist. Recent publications on Impressionism as an effect of the chemical dye industry, on the history of the Greek alphabet from Euripides to Plato, on early wireless technology, on music in Jean Jacques Rousseau's work, on the history of the concept of "risk," and on transformations in perspective painting from Leon Battista Alberti to Salvador Dalí. Works in progress include: On Wings of Light: A Cultural History of Telecommunication from Antiquity to the Present, and Echo's Echoes: From Freud to Lacan.

• Introduction: Enlightened Warfare in Eighteenth-Century Germany - Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne SimpsonThe Point of Recognition: Enemy, Neighbor, and Next of Kin in the Era of Frederick the Great - Sara Eigen FigalWriting War and the Aesthetics of Political Literature in the 1790s: Daniel Jenisch's (Un)timely Seven Years' War Epic Borussias - Johannes BirgfeldAgamemnon on the Battlefield of Leipzig: Wilhelm von Humboldt on Ancient Warriors, Modern Heroes, and Bildung through War - Felix SaureWar, Anecdotes, and the Backsides of Reason: Kleist with Kant - Galili Shahar"Schon wieder Krieg! Der Kluge hörts nicht gern": Goethe, Warfare, and Faust II - Elisabeth KrimmerRecoding the Ethics of War in Grimms' Fairy Tales - Patricia Anne SimpsonOn Gender Wars and Amazons: Therese Huber on Terror and Revolution - Inge StephanAngelica Kauffmann's War Heroes: (Not) Painting War in a Culture of Sensibility - Waltraud MaierhoferCitizen-Soldiers: General Conscription in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Ute FrevertJust War and Perpetual Peace: Kant on the Legitimate Use of Political Violence - David ColclasureMilitary Intelligence: On Carl von Clausewitz's Hermeneutics of Disturbance and Probability - Arndt NiebischHost Nations: Carl von Clausewitz and the New U.S. Army/Marine Corps Field Manual, FM 3-24, MCWP 3-33.5, Counterinsurgency - Wolf KittlerBibliographyNotes on the ContributorsIndex

The contributions transmit, based on the example of a great variety of mostly literary texts from the German-language regions, a lively impression of the extent to which the experience and imagery of war and the culture of war put their stamp on contemporary discourse . . . . In doing so, they reflect the great pride of place of the military and war in society between the end of the eighteenth century and the end of the Napoleonic Age. . . . [T]his collection delivers important insights about the form, content, and breadth of the societal discourse about war and peace [during this period].