Battling to the End: Conversations with Benoit Chantre

by René Girard and Benoît Chantre

Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote On War, is known above all for his famous dictum: "War is the continuation of politics by other means." In Ren Girard's view, however, the strategist's treatise offers up a more disturbing truth to the reader willing to extrapolate from its most daring observations: with modern warfare comes the insanity of tit-for-tat escalation, which political institutions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870138774
• ISBN13: 9780870138775
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"