Name: The Warriors: Reflections on men in Battle (Revised)
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Author: Hannah Arendt
ISBN: 9780803270763

portada The Warriors: Reflections on men in Battle (Revised)

Type

Physical Book

Author

J. Glenn Gray

Introduction by

Hannah Arendt

Publisher

Bison Books

Year

1998

Language

English

Pages

242

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.7 x 1.4 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN

0803270763

ISBN13

9780803270763

Edition No.

0002

Synopsis "The Warriors: Reflections on men in Battle (Revised)"

Selected for the 2019 Commandant's Professional Reading List J. Glenn Gray entered the army as a private in May 1941, having been drafted on the same day he was informed of his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University. He was discharged as a second lieutenant in October 1945, having been awarded a battlefield commission during fighting in France. Gray saw service in North Africa, Italy, France, and Germany in a counter-espionage unit. Fourteen years after his discharge, Gray began to reread his war journals and letters in an attempt to find some meaning in his wartime experiences. The result is The Warriors, a philosophical meditation on what warfare does to us and an examination of the reasons soldiers act as they do. Gray explains the attractions of battle--the adrenaline rush, the esprit de corps--and analyzes the many rationalizations made by combat troops to justify their actions. In the end, Gray notes, "War reveals dimensions of human nature both above and below the acceptable standards for humanity."

Hannah Arendt

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(Hannover, Alemania, 1906 - Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 1975) Arendt se ha erigido, como uno de los puntos de referencia fundamentales para el conocimiento de la filosofía política. Nacida en Hannover, estudió en Marburgo, Friburgo y Heidelberg, donde se graduó en Filosofía. En 1933, cuando los nazis ocuparon el poder, emigró a París. Más tarde se instaló en Estados Unidos, donde dirigió la Conferencia sobre las Relaciones Judías (1944-1946) y también la Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc. Fue catedrática en la Universidad de Chicago y enseñó asimismo en Columbia, Princeton y Berkeley.

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