From: "Library of Social Science" <libraryofsocialscience-AT-earthlink.net> Subject: As the Soldier Dies, So Does the Nation Come Alive: The Sacrificial Meaning of Warfare Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:55:47 -0400 <http://home.earthlink.net/~libraryofsocialscience/> CLICK HERE to read: AS THE SOLDIER DIES, SO DOES THE NATION COME ALIVE: The Sacrificial Meaning of Warfare. Or go to: <http://home.earthlink.net/~libraryofsocialscience/> http://home.earthlink.net/~libraryofsocialscience/ Seemingly an activity, war in actuality represents the acting out of an ideology. What is the nature of the idea that gives rise to war? Contemporary thought focuses on discourse, as if passionate, violent forms of action could be the result of disembodied structures of cognition. What desires and anxieties give rise to and sustain the discourse of war? In this paper--available for the first time as an on-line publication--Richard Koenigsberg continues his exploration into the sources of societal violence. Phrases like "The individual must die so that the nation might live" suggest that the country is a living creature, the preservation of which is more valuable than the preservation of a human life. In war, human bodies are sacrificed in the name of perpetuating the body politic. Entering into battle is a devotional act; death in war the supreme act of devotion. A French soldier in the First World War wrote to his parents and asked them to remember him as one who had 'given their blood that France may live.' Warfare resembles a blood transfusion--the life-sustaining substance of an individual body passing into the collective body, functioning to keep it alive. <http://home.earthlink.net/~libraryofsocialscience/> CLICK HERE to read: AS THE SOLDIER DIES, SO DOES THE NATION COME ALIVE: The Sacrificial Meaning of Warfare. Or go to: <http://home.earthlink.net/~libraryofsocialscience/> http://home.earthlink.net/~libraryofsocialscience/ --- StripMime Warning -- MIME attachments removed --- This message may have contained attachments which were removed. Sorry, we do not allow attachments on this list. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---
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