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War and Peace: Destructive Creativity and Creative Destruction

In: Stories of Innovation for the Millennial Generation: The Lynceus Long View

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  • Piero Formica

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During the three days in September 2009 of the Festival of the Mind in Sarzana, Italy, Alessandro Barbero, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Eastern Piemonte, presented a dissertation on the destructive creativity of war, as illustrated by three great battles: Campaldino (1289), Lepanto (1571) and Waterloo (1815). In Barbero’s thesis these historical events represent the tragedy of destructive force, an explosion of violence intended to achieve the annihilation of the opponent. ‘I win, you lose’ is both the temptation and the intention of the serpent that is the competition between the warring enemies.

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  • Piero Formica, 2013. "War and Peace: Destructive Creativity and Creative Destruction," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Stories of Innovation for the Millennial Generation: The Lynceus Long View, chapter 8, pages 52-56, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-34731-2_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137347312_8
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