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Citizens, soldiers and national armies : military service in France and Germany, 1789-1830
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Soldats et citoyens. English
Title
Citizens, soldiers and national armies : military service in France and Germany, 1789-1830 / Thomas Hippler.
ISBN
0203089111
0415409799
1134130031
9780203089118
9780415409797
9781134130030
0415409799
9780415409797
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 260 pages)
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Translated from the French.
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Summary
"Compulsory military service implies a contradiction: conceived as an element and a guarantee of the citizens' active participation in politics, it is at the same time an institution of social discipline that separates the citizens from the civil society. This tension between citizenship and discipline thus poses concretely the problem of political liberty. While being egalitarian in its principle, conscription concerns only the male parts of the population. The exclusion of women echoes their exclusion from political rights. Moreover, the universality of the obligation is in constant tension with particular class interests." "Rather than opposing a French model of republican conscription to a Prussian militarism, this book tries to show how Prussia has replied dialectically to the revolutionary institution of mass violence. The French Revolution and the Prussian Reforms are thus conceived of as two moments within a single process which is intrinsically transnational. The book seeks to confront the philosophical problem of political liberty - as it was formulated most prominently by Rousseau and Kant - to history and relies on official sources, philosophical texts, as well as ego-documents, which are subjective articulations of political modernity."--Jacket
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Hippler, Thomas, 1972- Soldats et citoyens. English. Citizens, soldiers and national armies. London ; New York : Routledge, 2008
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
War, history and politics series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-252) and index.
Contents
Introduction: citizenship and discipline
First part: the French moment
State-construction and recruitment policy in the ancien regime
From feudal recruitment to touting
The militia (and how to escape from it)
Soldiers and the state
The Enlightenment and military service
Virtue-politics
Rousseau and the military: a philosophy of civic practice
Citizen-soldiers
Popular arming and military service in the French Revolution
The formation of the National Guard
The 1789-90 debate on the military constitution
Armed forces and levies of volunteers in 1791-3
Citizenship or discipline?
Unifying the public force
The revolutionary state and the nation in arms
Quatre-vingt-treize
Death is a reminder of equality: the self-creation of the people
Abstraction and identification
Military experiences
Constructing a popular state
Transition: technologies of the state from France to Prussia
Second part: the Prussian moment
Military, society, and the state in old regime Prussia
State-construction and military duties
The establishment of the canton system
Social implementation
Criticism of the Prussian military system
German idealism and military service
The challenge of revolutionary war to German culture
Interpreting the Revolution: the reform as theory
Kant's heroic humiliation
Fichte's inner frontier
Conscription in the reformed Prussian state
Empowering the nation
The principles of the military reform
Creating a body politic
Principles of stratification
The path to national war
National war and conscription
Organizing an insurrection
Constitution and terror
Popular arming
Conscription
Conclusion.
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