Project description
Understanding war beyond nature and culture
Despite its enduring presence, war remains one of the least-understood dimensions of human existence. Is it a natural instinct or a product of culture and technology? Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the POW project explores this question through a philosophical lens. It will move beyond simplistic naturalistic or anti-naturalistic explanations. Specifically, it will develop the first systematic phenomenological account of war. Drawing on insights from both philosophy and strategic studies, the project treats war as a complex, liminal phenomenon – neither fully natural nor purely cultural. Overall, POW challenges dogmatic assumptions and seeks to reshape how we understand conflict in today’s world.
Objective
The aim of “Phenomenology of War: Imagining the Future, Interrupting the Present” (POW) is to offer the first systematic phenomenological treatment of war. Is war a phenomenon pertaining to the state of nature or the most extreme manifestation of the human potential for technological destruction? One of the working premises of POW is that both the naturalism and anti-naturalism of much contemporary philosophy are unable to account for the war-phenomenon since both tend to eliminate the human factor from their considerations of human relations. Naturalism tends to assimilate any distinctive human feature to impersonal natural dynamics. Anti-naturalism tends to interpret the human condition according to artificial human productions. The question whether war pertains to nature or culture remains essentially open today. As a central part of the project, POW will pay close attention to contemporary strategic and security studies. The multidisciplinary nature of these studies shall offer the empirical foundation to counter naïve and dogmatic presuppositions about what war should or should not be. POW aims to account for the war-phenomenon by recovering the original diversity of data in the realm of human warfare and by exploring war as a liminal phenomenon between nature and culture. To achieve the project objectives, the support of my supervisor at the UniTo (Prof. Gaetano Chiurazzi) and training in strategic studies at the Interdepartmental School in Strategic Studies (SUISS) at UniTo and at the National Defence University (NDU) in Helsinki will be crucial. By deepening my philosophical background and branching out to military studies, POW will enable me to recover the full originality and complexity of the human factor that lies at the heart of the war-phenomenon, resulting in the first phenomenological account of the historical and anthropological particularity of this characteristic mode of human relations.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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10124 Torino
Italy
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