Wanting reassurance is always contribute to worse

One might think that everything has already been on the work of Carl von Clausewitz. Basil Liddell-Hart Raymond Aron, exegetes of the famous "On War" have continued to draw lessons for their respective eras, writings of the Prussian strategist.

René Girard's book, "Complete Clausewitz 'takes all these analyzes against the foot, demonstrating both the validity of the message of Clausewitz and asserting that, contrary to the usual summary of her message is actually the policy running helplessly behind the war. Girard therefore decrypts how Clausewitz understood, better than any other, that war is primarily a duel and that the "escalation to extremes" has now taken precedence over any form of restraining violence. Girard analyzes aeuvre Clausewitz several angles: in terms of the fascination "mimetic" Clausewitz to Napoleon, in perspective of the texts of Hölderlin - another contemporary Jena - and finally an extension of the "Franco-German conflict "and the centuries-old struggle between" the Pope and the Emperor. "

The apocalyptic vision of history, in the Christian sense of the term, we issue the French academician René Girard, wanting to go to the end hunches Clausewitz has something confusing (especially those who have not read his Leaders aeuvres founders, Deceit and truth and fiction Violence and the Sacred), but its convergence with the realities of the history of the last two centuries and recent events - like the terrorist escalation and ecological perils - are more than troubling. "We must therefore wake the sleeping consciences. Wanting reassurance is always contribute to worse, "concluded Girard.