Enlightened conflict investigates the a number of and complicated interactions among battle and Enlightenment proposal. even if the Enlightenment is often pointed out with the beliefs of growth, everlasting peace, cause, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse spread out in the course of a interval of lengthy ecu struggle from the Seven Years' warfare to the Napoleonic conquest of Europe. The essays during this quantity discover the palpable effect of conflict on eighteenth-century inspiration and argue for an ideological affinity between conflict, Enlightenment suggestion, and its legacy. The essays are interdisciplinary, enticing with historical past, paintings historical past, philosophy, army conception, gender reports, and literature and with ancient occasions and cultural contexts from the early Enlightenment via German Classicism and Romanticism. the quantity enriches our realizing of war within the eighteenth century and exhibits how theories and practices of warfare impacted recommendations of subjectivity, nationwide id, gender, and paintings. It additionally sheds gentle at the modern dialogue of the legitimacy of violence via juxtaposing theories of conflict, options of revolution, and human rights discourses. participants: Johannes Birgfeld, David Colclasure, Sara Eigen Figal, Ute Frevert, Wolf Kittler, Elisabeth Krimmer, Waltraud Maierhofer, Arndt Niebisch, Felix Saure, Galili Shahar, Patricia Anne Simpson, Inge Stephan.