Vom Kriege
Thought I answered on 2011-02-04, 10h50: Clausewitz, like you show in your quote. I objected to the label "philosopher". The name of the book is "Vom Kriege" (= "On war").
He worked on it between 1818 and 1830. And died the next year of cholera while on assignment as Chief of staff to Generalfeldmarschall Gneisenau in Prussia (re Polish revolt). It was his wife who collected his notes, finished the last two chapters and had the book published in 1832.
It's probably in the first chapter, at the end of section 3. I have a French version of the German text so the wording is slightly different from that of the English translator of your version. Something like: "We can therefore reformulate our proposition and say: war is a violence in action, and it's use is limited by nothing; each of the belligerents imposes his law on the other, from which derives an interaction that cannot avoid, by the very essence of war, to lead to extremes. We meet here the first interaction and the first extreme."
What did you think of our fascist friend Winston's infatuation for the Gröfaz?
(German soldiers' derogatory acronym for Größter Feldherr aller Zeiten, a title initially publicized by Nazi propaganda to refer to Adolf Hitler during the early war years; literally, the "Greatest Field Commander of all Time".)
Thought I answered on 2011-02-04, 10h50: Clausewitz, like you show in your quote. I objected to the label "philosopher". The name of the book is "Vom Kriege" (= "On war").
He worked on it between 1818 and 1830. And died the next year of cholera while on assignment as Chief of staff to Generalfeldmarschall Gneisenau in Prussia (re Polish revolt). It was his wife who collected his notes, finished the last two chapters and had the book published in 1832.
It's probably in the first chapter, at the end of section 3. I have a French version of the German text so the wording is slightly different from that of the English translator of your version. Something like: "We can therefore reformulate our proposition and say: war is a violence in action, and it's use is limited by nothing; each of the belligerents imposes his law on the other, from which derives an interaction that cannot avoid, by the very essence of war, to lead to extremes. We meet here the first interaction and the first extreme."
What did you think of our fascist friend Winston's infatuation for the Gröfaz?
(German soldiers' derogatory acronym for Größter Feldherr aller Zeiten, a title initially publicized by Nazi propaganda to refer to Adolf Hitler during the early war years; literally, the "Greatest Field Commander of all Time".)
