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dc.contributor.authorPankakoski, Timo
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-06T06:38:45Z
dc.date.available2018-04-10T21:45:10Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationPankakoski, T. (2017). Containment and intensification in political war : Carl Schmitt and the Clausewitzian heritage. <i>History of European Ideas</i>, <i>43</i>(6), 649-673. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2016.1234967" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2016.1234967</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_26284232
dc.identifier.otherTUTKAID_71550
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/57002
dc.description.abstractThis article provides the first comprehensive and chronological analysis of Carl Schmitt’s reception of Carl von Clausewitz. While earlier scholarship has mostly stressed Schmitt’s shift from Clausewitzian ‘instrumentality’ to an ‘existential’ view of war, I note some inherent difficulties in this dichotomy and instead promote the parallel distinction between two argument types: those of containment and intensification. Schmitt theorized both limited political war and the intensification of war out of traditional bounds, and focusing on one should not eclipse the other. Further, both elements are identifiable already in Clausewitz. I analyse Schmitt’s oscillation between containment and intensification arguments chronologically from the mid-1920s to the 1960s. Despite sometimes nominally rejecting Clausewitz’s famous thesis of war as the continuation of politics, Schmitt nevertheless affirmed the idea of war’s political nature. I conclude that Schmitt’s view can be read as a radicalized version of the Clausewitzian political theory of war rather than a strict deviation from it. This becomes evident as soon as we place Schmitt’s partly incoherent observations on Clausewitz in their argumentative contexts.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHistory of European Ideas
dc.subject.otherSchmitt, Carl
dc.subject.otherClausewitz, Carl von
dc.subject.othercontainment
dc.subject.otherintensification
dc.subject.otherwar
dc.titleContainment and intensification in political war : Carl Schmitt and the Clausewitzian heritage
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201802051426
dc.contributor.laitosYhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Social Sciences and Philosophyen
dc.contributor.oppiaineValtio-oppifi
dc.contributor.oppiainePolitical Scienceen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.date.updated2018-02-05T13:15:11Z
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange649-673
dc.relation.issn0191-6599
dc.relation.numberinseries6
dc.relation.volume43
dc.type.versionacceptedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by Taylor & Francis. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.
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dc.relation.grantnumber267352
dc.relation.doi10.1080/01916599.2016.1234967
dc.relation.funderSuomen Akatemiafi
dc.relation.funderResearch Council of Finlanden
jyx.fundingprogramAkatemiahanke, SAfi
jyx.fundingprogramAcademy Project, AoFen
jyx.fundinginformationThis work was supported by The Academy of Finland [grant number 267352].
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