The Ultimate Experience

Part I. Introduction: War as Revelation, 1865–2000

1. Introduction: War as Revelation, 1865–2000
Yuval Noah Harari

Part II. The Supremacy of Mind: 1450–1740

2. Suffering, Death, and Revelation in Early Modern Culture
Yuval Noah Harari

3. The Absence of Revelation from Early Modern Military Memoirs
Yuval Noah Harari

4. Why War Revealed Nothing
Yuval Noah Harari

Part III. The Revolt of the Body: 1740–1865

5. Bodies Begin to Think
Yuval Noah Harari

6. The Rise of the Common Soldier
Yuval Noah Harari

7. The Rise of the Revelatory Interpretation of War
Yuval Noah Harari

8. Conclusions: The Things Which Make You Know, 1865–2000
Yuval Noah Harari

Keywords: History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Social History, Cultural History, History of Military, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Early Modern Europe