[lit-ideas] Chamberlain (Was: Sacrifice)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:57:12 EST
In a message dated 2/14/2005 1:40:15 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Maybe it's that individuals [Napoleon, e.g.] make war, but nations
[France, Prussia, England, Russia, etc.] fight it.
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Well, it's tricky,
when the United Kingdom declared war on Germany, it was via UK's prime
minister (Chamberlain). So it's was an individual (qua officer) who declared
war
on a COUNTRY.
I forget who declared war on Germany in WW1.
The performativity of declaring war on... requires individuals to do the
declaring (but only in their officer-capacity) and _collective things_ as
recipients (Chamberlain could not declare the war on Hitler, say).
But you knew that.
On the other hand, when the Duke of Windsor abdicated, it was _him_.
Cheers,
JL
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