Hegel and Clausewitz: Convergence on Method, Divergence on Ethics
@article{Cormier2014HegelAC, title={Hegel and Clausewitz: Convergence on Method, Divergence on Ethics}, author={Y. Cormier}, journal={The International History Review}, year={2014}, volume={36}, pages={419 - 442} }
The Hegelian influence in Clausewitz has far more often been stated than it has ever been qualified, quantified, or verified. Perhaps the error was to try to ‘prove’ such a link, rather than focus on what such a convergence consists of and what it means, regardless of how it happened. Using both a historical and a linguistic argument, this essay delineates early writings that are devoid of any Hegelian similarities from those later in Clausewitz's life where a convergence of ideas becomes… CONTINUE READING
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