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Index
Cover Page
Half Title Page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
A Note on the Translation
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Escalation to Extremes
“War is Nothing But a Duel on a Larger Scale.”
Reciprocal Action and the Mimetic Principle
Attack and Defense: Suspended Polarity
Chapter 2: Clausewitz and Hegel
The Duel and Alternation of Opposites
An Impossible Reconciliation
Chapter 3: Duel and Reciprocity
“A Remarkable Trinity”
War and Exchange
The Logic of Prohibitions
The end of Rules
A Return to the Simple Life?
Chapter 4: The Duel and the Sacred
The Two Ages of War
A Warlike Religion
The Military Genius and the Superman
The Enemy Facing Me
The Apocalyptic Turn
Chapter 5: Hölderlin’s Sorrow
The Two Circles of the Gospels
“Near is / And Difficult to Grasp, the God”
Rational Models and Mimetic Models
Chapter 6: Clausewitz and Napoleon
The Napoleonic Anti-Model
Chapter 7: France and Germany
The Voyage of Germaine De Staël
The European Entente
“The Strange Defeat” of 1940
Chapter 8: The Pope and the Emperor
The last Internationale
A Thousand Year War
The Regensburg Controversy
Epilogue
When Danger Threatens
Notes
Index
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