De Gruyter Oldenbourg Nullpunkt der Ordnung

Studied intensively in the social sciences, civil war has been neglected as an object of study in intellectual history. This book considers civil war in the modern era, from Niccolò Machiavelli to Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It demonstrates that, in the modern age, it is not possible to conceive of order without civil war – whether as total chaos, a source of power, or a mode of statehood. ...