Luis De Miranda

Ensemblance

The Transnational Genealogy of Esprit de Corps

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Produktbeschreibung

Is esprit de corps the secret engine of history? Esprit de corps has played a significant role in the cultural and political history of the last 300 years. The idea was influential and debated during the European secularisation of education in the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, the United States process of Independence and the Bonapartist Empire. It was praised by British colonialists, French sociologists and during the World Wars. It was also instrumental in the rise of administrative nation-states and the triumph of corporate capitalism. Today, 'esprit de corps' continues to be influential in disparate discourses. Through several historical case studies, Luis de Miranda shows how this phrase acts as a combat concept with a clear societal impact. He also reveals how interconnected, yet distinct, French, English and American modern intellectual and political thought is. In the end, this is a cautionary analysis of past and current ideologies of ultra-unified human ensembles, a recurrent historical and theoretical fabulation the author calls 'ensemblance'. Luis de Miranda is a Researcher in the History of Ideas at Örebro University, Sweden.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781474454193
• ISBN-10: 1474454194
• Artikelnr.: 58018860

Autorenporträt

Luis de Miranda is Researcher in the History of Ideas Department at Örebro University, Sweden. He is the author of Being and Neonness (MIT Press, 2019), Peut-on jouir du capitalisme? Lacan avec Heidegger et Marx (Max Milo, 2009) and Une vie nouvelle est-elle possible? Deleuze et les lignes (Nous, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Esprit de Corps: A Timeline
Introduction. A Thousand Platoons: The Enduring Importance of Esprit de
Corps
* Team Spirits: Twenty-First Century Uses of 'Esprit de Corps'
* Knowledge Aperture: Academic Literature on Esprit de Corps
* Abstract Universalism: The Problem of a Philosophical Perspective
When Studying Esprit de Corps
* As Far as We Can Tell: A Longue Durée Intellectual History of the
Uses of 'Esprit de Corps'
* Surveying Large Issues Within a Small Compass: Digital Genealogy
1. Musketeers and Jesuits: The French Birth of 'Esprit de Corps' in the
Eighteenth Century
* Not Only in the Military: First Occurrences of the Phrase in Print
* The Head of the World: A Short Prehistory of the Phrase 'Esprit de
Corps'
* One Hundred Fifty: A Quantification of Esprit de Corps?
* Bad Grafts: Critical Uses of 'Esprit de Corps' in the Encyclopédie
* Too Zealous to Be Honest? The Trial of the Jesuits
2. Adunation of the Nation: Towards a Republican Esprit de Corps
* The Mask of Reason: Dialectics of Particularism and Patriotism
* Collective Cogito: The Nation as a Natural and Spiritual Corps
* Capitalism versus Esprit de Corps: The Suppression of the Corps de
Métiers
* Common Good: Revolution and the 'Adunation' of Society
3. We Must Hang Together: The English Appropriation of Esprit de Corps in
the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
* Exotic Flavour and Distinction: Linguistic and Semantic Observations
* Unavoidable Zeal: Early Propagation of EdC in British English
* The Honour of a Nation: Official Debates about EdC in the UK and the
USA
* The Natural Bond: Universalist and Familial Esprit de Corps
4. The Way of Napoleon: The Uniformization of Esprit de Corps in Early
Nineteenth-Century France
* Superiorly Normal: Renewal and Normalization of Esprit de Corps
* Esprit de Corporation: The Decline of Labour Communities and the
Spread of Individualist Competition
* The Honour and Duty of the Soldier
* Defend Your Flag: Napoleonic Esprit de Corps
* The Cement of the Social Edifice: The Counter-Revolutionary Praise of
Esprit de Corps
5. Collective Temperament: Esprit de Corps as Sociality and Individuation
in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
* Whose Norms? Conformative Esprit de Corps and Autonomist Esprit de
Corps
* 'We Who Suffer': The Problematic Regulation of Solidarities
* Esprit de Corps and The Spirit of Individuality: Tocqueville's
Reminiscence
* Esprit de Corps and the First French Sociologists: Fourier, Tarde,
Durkheim
* Self-Alienation: The Individualistic critique of Esprit de Corps
6. The Mystique of Esprit de Corps in France in the Twentieth Century
* The Moral Empire: Permanence of the Ambiguity of Esprit de Corps in
French
* The Superior Self: Esprit de Corps as Honour in Terraillon and
Bergson
* Professional Habitus: French Esprit de Corps in Work, Management and
French Education
* Esprit de Corps as a War Machine: From De Gaulle to Deleuze
* The future of a Gallicism: Canada as a Semantic Border Between French
and English
7. The Way of Hilton: Esprit de Corps in the UK and the USA in the
Twentieth Century
* 'A Happy Phrase': The Specificity of English Uses of 'Esprit de Corps
'
* Brothers in Arms: Esprit de Corps in Military Discourse
* The Purpose of Unity: Political and Institutional Aspects of Esprit
de Corps
* Measure by Measure: Intellectual and Theoretical Uses of 'Esprit de
Corps'
* The Management of Men: Corporate and Managerial Discourse
Conclusion: Ensemblance
* 'Large issues within a small compass': Histosophy
* Is a General Theory of Esprit de Corps Possible?
* Drive, Discipline, Duty and Distinction: Four Scales of Esprit de
Corps?
* The Contigency of Ensembles: Six Questions Raised and Answered
Bibliography
Index