New essays exploring the relationship between warfare and Enlightenment thought both historically and in the present.

New essays exploring the relationship between warfare and Enlightenment thought both historically and in the present.

Enlightened War investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse unfolded during a period of prolonged European warfare from the Seven Years' War to the Napoleonic conquest of Europe. The essays in this volume explore the palpable influence of war on eighteenth-century thought and argue for an ideological affinity among war, Enlightenment thought, and its legacy.
The essays are interdisciplinary, engaging with history, art history, philosophy, military theory, gender studies, and literature and with historical events and cultural contexts from the early Enlightenment through German Classicism and Romanticism. The volume enriches our understanding of warfare in the eighteenth century and shows how theories and practices of war impacted concepts of subjectivity, national identity, gender, and art. It also sheds light on the contemporary discussion of the legitimacy of violence by juxtaposing theories of war, concepts of revolution, and human rights discourses.

Contributors: Johannes Birgfeld, David Colclasure, Sara Eigen Figal, Ute Frevert, Wolf Kittler, Elisabeth Krimmer, Waltraud Maierhofer, Arndt Niebisch, Felix Saure, Galili Shahar, Patricia Anne Simpson, Inge Stephan.

Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis, and Patricia Anne Simpson is Associate Professor of German Studies at Montana State University.

Introduction: Enlightened Warfare in Eighteenth-Century Germany - Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson
The Point of Recognition: Enemy, Neighbor, and Next of Kin in the Era of Frederick the Great - Sara Eigen Figal
Writing War and the Aesthetics of Political Literature in the 1790s: Daniel Jenisch's (Un)timely Seven Years' War Epic Borussias - Johannes Birgfeld
Agamemnon on the Battlefield of Leipzig: Wilhelm von Humboldt on Ancient Warriors, Modern Heroes, and Bildung through War - Felix Saure
War, 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 Krimmer
Recoding the Ethics of War in Grimms' Fairy Tales - Patricia Anne Simpson
On Gender Wars and Amazons: Therese Huber on Terror and Revolution - Inge Stephan
Angelica Kauffmann's War Heroes: (Not) Painting War in a Culture of Sensibility - Waltraud Maierhofer
Citizen-Soldiers: General Conscription in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Ute Frevert
Just War and Perpetual Peace: Kant on the Legitimate Use of Political Violence - David Colclasure
Military Intelligence: On Carl von Clausewitz's Hermeneutics of Disturbance and Probability - Arndt Niebisch
Host Nations: Carl von Clausewitz and the New U.S. Army/Marine Corps Field Manual, FM 3-24, MCWP 3-33.5, Counterinsurgency - Wolf Kittler
Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index