- Bib ID:
- 832399
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hedges, Chris
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : PublicAffairs, c2002
- 211 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1586480499
- Summary:
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"Drawing on the literature of combat, from Homer and Shakespeare to Erich Maria Remarque and Michael Herr, Hedges shows how human beings are conditioned to embrace what he calls "the myth of war" - the idea that combat is noble, selfless, and glorious. And yet if human history is any guide, nations and imperiums have stumbled and even fallen when they believed the myths peddled about war and about themselves. The reality of war, which Hedges knows first-hand, is about the destruction of culture, the perversion of human desire, and the embrace, ultimately, of death over life."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Myth of War
- 2. The Plague of Nationalism
- 3. The Destruction of Culture
- 4. The Seduction of Battle and the Perversion of War
- 5. The Hijacking and Recovery of Memory
- 6. The Cause
- 7. Eros and Thanatos.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-195) and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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