SPANISH GUERRILLAS AGAINST NAPOLEON: POLITICAL INTENSITY AND THE WORLD SPIRIT

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. I quote from a typescript translation by A. Clint Goodson. 2. For Hegel and Haiti see of course Buck-Morss Buck-Morss , Susan . Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History . Pittsburgh, PA : U of Pittsburgh P , 2009 .[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]; but see also the refining and partial critique of Buck-Morss's argument in Nesbitt Nesbitt , Nick . Universal Emancipation. The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment . Charlottesville, VA : U of Virginia P , 2008 . [Google Scholar]. Zizek Žižek , Slavoj . First as Tragedy, Then as Farce . London : Verso , 2009 . [Google Scholar] accepts Buck-Morss's reading in First As Tragedy (111–25). 3. See Guha Guha , Ranajit . History at the Limit of World-History . New York : Columbia UP , 2002 . [Google Scholar] for a critique of Hegelian world-history from a subalternist perspective. 4. In what follows I consider the claims and conclusions established by Esdaile, Fraser Fraser , Ronald . La maldita guerra de España. Historia social de la Guerra de la Independencia (1808–1814) . Barcelona : Critica , 2006 . [Google Scholar], García Cárcel García Cárcel , Ricardo . El sueño de la razón indomable. Los mitos de la Guerra de la Independencia . Madrid : Temas de Hoy , 2007 . [Google Scholar], de Diego, and Bell. 5. Tone reminds us of the “bandit chieftains” who “called the new pattern of individualized warfare by the simple name of the ‘Idea’”. “The Men of the Idea believed that in nature no person was subordinated to another… [They] opposed village, province, and nation almost as much as they did the French government. In the matter of warfare the Men of the Idea believed that the energy of the people could best be harnessed by giving each individual free reign to grab whatever portion of power and territory he could forcefully dominate” (89).