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100 1 $aPick, Daniel.
245 10 $aWar machine :$bthe rationalisation of slaughter in the modern age /$cDaniel Pick.
260 $aNew Haven, Conn. :$bYale University Press,$c1993.
300 $a292 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index.
505 0 $aCobden's critique of war -- Clausewitz and friction -- Proudhon's War and peace -- Engels and the devouring war of the future -- De Quincey's m ost romantic of all romances' -- Ruskin and the degradation of true war -- The biology of war -- The wake of 1870 -- Tunnel visions -- 1914 : the d eep sources' -- The rationalisation of slaughter -- T he unnatural and terrible wall of the war' -- T he revolt of the machines' -- W hy war?'
520 $aThis intriguing study examines Western perceptions of war in and beyond the nineteenth century, surveying the writings of novelists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, philosophers, poets, natural scientists, and journalists to trace the terms of modern thought on the nature of military conflict. Daniel Pick brings together philosophical and historical models of war with fictions of invasion, propaganda from the Great War, interpretations of shellshock and speculations about the biological value of conquest. He discusses the work of such familiar commentators as Clausewitz, Engels, and Treitschke, and examines little-known writings by Proudhon, De Quincey, Ruskin, Valery, and many others, culminating in the extraordinary dialogue between Freud and Einstein, Why War? He analyses Victorian fears of French contamination through the Channel Tunnel as well as the widespread continuing dread of German domination. And he charts the history of the pervasive European belief that war is beneficial or at least functionally necessary. A central theme of the book is the disturbing relationship between machinery and destruction. Visions of relentless technological 'progress' and the inexorable advance of the military-industrial complex often seem to distort our understanding of war, even to reduce it to a sophisticated game played out by high-precision automata. Pick explores both the reassuring and troubling aspects of such representations. Shorn of human agency or responsibility, war apparently threatens to become technologically unstoppable, the remorseless 'perfect abattoir' of the industrial age. War Machine explores the enduring historical fascination with - and recoil from - brutal mechanical slaughter, and the modern aquiescence in, and enthusiasm for (in Rilke's phrase), 'these days of monstrously accelerated dying'.
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