A Rene Gerard's Interest in Napoleon, Klauswitz and Klauswitz

Rai: One of the big discussion points, and this is a wer triangle between napoleon, klauswitz and hegel basin. As gerard often notes, you are both attracted to and repulsed by mometic rivalry. And so it's just kind of interesting what you just said about a fouce,. In a way, napoleon is well known as one of the greatest conquerors but his secret weapons were mobilizing normal people in into warfare. He was spreading the napoleonic code that can just be transmitted from country to country. But then at the same time, he's producing, as an opposite reaction, the emergence of nationalism.