Ensemblance : : The Transnational Genealogy of Esprit de Corps / / Luis de Miranda.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: de Miranda, Luis,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

Is esprit de corps the secret engine of history?Unveils the hidden and conflicting ideologies at stake behind the concept of esprit de corps and its contemporary uses Focuses on the discursive uses of esprit de corps in various transnational contexts and in the long term, from 1700 to present times Combines intellectual history, cultural history, philosophy, history of ideas, discourse analysis, political theory and labour history Offers a fresh look into the modern dialectics of individualism and collectivism, structure and agency, laissez-faire and corporatismDeepens our understanding of the history of corporate capitalism and its military influences, as well as to understand the current revival of occidental nationalismEsprit de corps has played a significant role in the cultural and political history of the last 300 years. 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’.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Esprit de Corps: A Timeline -- Introduction: A Thousand Platoons – The Enduring Importance of Esprit de Corps -- 1 Musketeers and Jesuits: The French Birth of Esprit de Corps in the Eighteenth Century -- 2 ‘Adunation’ of the Nation: Towards a Republican Esprit de Corps -- 3 ‘We Must Hang Together’: The English Appropriation of Esprit de Corps in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 4 The Way of Napoleon: The Uniformisation of Esprit de Corps in Early Nineteenth-Century France -- 5 Collective Temperament: Esprit de Corps as Sociality and Individuation in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 6 The Mystique of Esprit de Corps in France in the Twentieth Century -- 7 The Way of Hilton: Esprit de Corps in the UK and the USA in the Twentieth Century -- Conclusion: Ensemblance -- Bibliography -- Index