FRAGMENTS OF WAR DISCOURSE - INTRODUCTION
FRAGMENTS OF WAR DISCOURSE - INTRODUCTION

Author(s): Obrad Savić
Subject(s): Philosophy, Studies in violence and power, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Beogradski krug
Keywords: war; fragments; discourse; philosophy; 20th century;
Summary/Abstract: The initial idea of this philosophical anthology on war and its discourse was formed at the beginning of the Nineties. This idea was not deprived of, so to say, pacifist diplomacy. In the background of accelerated and very dramatic events in Yugoslavia, gradual conceptual shaping of the anthology took on didactic overtones. That which this anthology attempted to reconstruct in the area of text started speaking again, with all vehemence, contextually. In the early nineties public discourse was forcefully colonized by precisely those elements of war talk which I believed had been long ago written off and irretrievably archived. Uneducated and totally primitive forms of militaristic discourse irrepressibly burst through into everyday life. In spite of exceptionally frequent war experience with which we have met here, and were now meting once again, I was surprised by the low theoretical level of war discourse. Under the surge of naked force, the procedure of rational argumentation was completely absent: atavism of war means once again overtook the mandate of cultivated initiatives.

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