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Kubik, Timothy Robert White.

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Spiked canon? The end of reading in military thought.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Spiked canon? The end of reading in military thought./
Author:	Kubik, Timothy Robert White.
Description:	421 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-04, Section: A, page: 1441.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-04A.
Subject:	Political Science, International Law and Relations. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9730737
ISBN:	059140026X

Spiked canon? The end of reading in military thought.
Kubik, Timothy Robert White.

Spiked canon? The end of reading in military thought. - 421 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-04, Section: A, page: 1441.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 1997.

What role should reading play in military thought, broadly understood as a field of inquiry addressing historical and contemporary policy issues? Students were once encouraged to read widely and critically from canonical works. Now this activity is reserved primarily for retired officers and a minority of scholars. To understand why, we must first answer a more specific question: What modes of reading contribute to our understanding of military thought? To answer either of these questions, it is necessary to investigate the distinct historiographical structures found in the history of military thought.

ISBN: 059140026XSubjects--Topical Terms:

1017399
Political Science, International Law and Relations.

Spiked canon? The end of reading in military thought.
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520 $a What role should reading play in military thought, broadly understood as a field of inquiry addressing historical and contemporary policy issues? Students were once encouraged to read widely and critically from canonical works. Now this activity is reserved primarily for retired officers and a minority of scholars. To understand why, we must first answer a more specific question: What modes of reading contribute to our understanding of military thought? To answer either of these questions, it is necessary to investigate the distinct historiographical structures found in the history of military thought.
520 $a Present-day scholars identify fundamental transformations in the material-technical conditions of warfare as the reason historical works receive less attention. History is reconfigured according to a series of military-technical revolutions, and these separate the past from the present. This reduces reading to a search for references to contemporary issues; issues themselves informed by the same structural themes. Texts once considered canonical become "spiked," rendered useless or, at best, monumental.
520 $a The validity of this approach is questioned in three chapters which explore alternative structures of reading in the works of Thucydides, Machiavelli, and Clausewitz. Each of these authors is shown to solicit a particular form of literary-rhetorical dialectic with readers as a means to overcome the historiographical structures common to their own discursive contexts. A final study of the German Kriegsspiel (war-game) offers a contrasting consideration of an historical case similar to contemporary practices. Here the 'mapping' of events relies on historiographical structures of representation to eliminate the problem of historical understanding altogether.
520 $a Is reading at an end in military thought? The answer depends on what the end of reading is understood to be. Modes of reading are not dictated by material conditions, but are chosen for strategic effect. We must appreciate the strategies deployed by authors, and their readers, if we are to re-open the pages of the canonical works of military thought.
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