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"A veteran "New York Times" war correspondent presents a thought-provoking reflection on how life is lived during times of war, and tackles the ugly truths about humanity's love affair with war, offering a sophisticated, intelligent meditation on the subject that is also gritty, powerful, and unforgettable. Hedges, a long-time foreign correspondent for </The New York Times/>, draws on his own experiences in Latin America, Bosnia, and elsewhere; treatments of war in literature; and historical events to examine the way human beings experience war and to suggest that war gives rise to dangerous myths of the nobility of the cause. He argues that there are very few people who are not susceptible to the allure of war, but that, in the end, war becomes a contest between </eros/> and </thanatos/>, in which </thanatos/> comes out on top all too often. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)."
"A veteran New York Times war correspondent's complex, moving, and thought-provoking reflection on how life is lived most intensely in times of war."@en
"Explores humanity's love affair with war, discussing how war becomes an emotionally intense and even exhilarating experience for civilians and soldiers alike."@en
"A veteran "New York Times" war correspondent presents a thought-provoking reflection on how life is lived during times of war, and tackles the ugly truths about humanity's love affair with war, offering a sophisticated, intelligent meditation on the subject that is also gritty, powerful, and unforgettable. Hedges, a long-time foreign correspondent for The New York Times, draws on his own experiences in Latin America, Bosnia, and elsewhere; treatments of war in literature; and historical events to examine the way human beings experience war and to suggest that war gives rise to dangerous myths of the nobility of the cause. He argues that there are very few people who are not susceptible to the allure of war, but that, in the end, war becomes a contest between eros and thanatos, in which thanatos comes out on top all too often."@en
"As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, has seen war at its worst and knows too well that to those who pass through it, war can be exhilarating and even addictive: "It gives us purpose, meaning, a reason for living." awing on his own experience and on the literature of combat from Homer to Michael Herr, Hedges shows how war seduces not."@en
""Drawing on the literature of combat, from Homer and Shakespeare to Erich Maria Remarque and Michael Herr, Hedges shows how human beings are conditioned to embrace what he calls "the myth of war"--The idea that combat is noble, selfless, and glorious. And yet if human history is any guide, nations and imperiums have stumbled and even fallen when they believed the myths peddled about war and about themselves. The reality of war, which Hedges knows first-hand, is about the destruction of culture, the perversion of human desire, and the embrace, ultimately, of death over life."--publisher description."@en

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"La guerra es la fuerza que nos da sentido"@es
"War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning"@en
"War is a force that gives us meaning"
"War is a force that gives us meaning"@en
"War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning"@en
"Il fascino oscuro della guerra"@it
"Il fascino oscuro della guerra"
"La guerra es la fuerza que nos da sentido / Chris Hedges ; traducción, Feliciano Alcover García-Tomel y Helena Espinosa Ruíz"@es
"La Guerra es la fuerza que nos da sentido"
"War is force that gives us meaning"

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