Luis de Miranda

Ensemblance

The Transnational Genealogy of Esprit de Corps

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Produktbeschreibung

Through several historical case studies from the last 300 years, Luis de Miranda shows how the phrase 'esprit de corps' 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781474454209
• ISBN-10: 1474454208
• Artikelnr.: 62215308

Autorenporträt

Luis de Miranda is a Researcher in the Department of History of Ideas and Science at Uppsala 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