A terrifying love of war. Hillman J.

War is a timeless power in human imagination and even in everyday life. When engaged in destruction, its soldiers and victims discover a paradoxical, but deep sense of existence, human being.

In the “terrifying love of war” James Hillman, one of the most respected modern psychologists, is taking a breakthrough study of the essence of the war, its psychological origins and inhuman behavior. Using stories from various fronts and times, letters of participants, analyzes of military authorities, classic myths and works of great thinkers, including Twain, Tolstoy, Kant, Arendt, Foucault and Levinas, Hillman is deploying an extensive and detailed study, leading to a fundamentally new understanding of the simultaneous attractiveness And the disgust of the war. This is an exciting, necessary book in our cruel world.