Becoming war: Towards a martial empiricism
Becoming war: Towards a martial empiricism
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DOI：
10.1177/0967010619895660
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发表时间：
2020-02-05
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Shah, Nisha
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作者：
Bousquet, Antoine;Grove, Jairus;Shah, Nisha
在军事经验主义的旗帜下，我们为战争研究提出了一套独特的理论和方法论承诺。以前为解决这种最顽固的现象所做的努力都试图将研究建立在战争的主要定义或基本本体论上。相比之下，我们建议拥抱战争的不断变化，使其创造力、可变性和多价性成为我们研究的核心。我们抛弃了对战争本质的无休止的追求，将战争视为神秘。我们借鉴激进经验主义的传统，设计出一种概念性和情境性的探究模式，无论战争的进程和行动如何引导我们，这种模式都可以追踪战争的进程和行动。军事经验主义超越了战略思想的工具性运用和批判方法典型的规范性限制，呼吁对战争的新兴和生成特征进行无限制的调查。在随附的特刊框架内，我们概述了未来研究的三个领域：动员、设计和遭遇。军事经验主义并不是哲学思辨中的无用功。它有望提出一个与充分应对我们这个时代战争的巨大可能性和危险的任务相适应的研究议程。
Under the banner of martial empiricism, we advance a distinctive set of theoretical and methodological commitments for the study of war. Previous efforts to wrestle with this most recalcitrant of phenomena have sought to ground research upon primary definitions or foundational ontologies of war. By contrast, we propose to embrace war's incessant becoming, making its creativity, mutability and polyvalence central to our enquiry. Leaving behind the interminable quest for its essence, we embrace war as mystery. We draw on a tradition of radical empiricism to devise a conceptual and contextual mode of enquiry that can follow the processes and operations of war wherever they lead us. Moving beyond the instrumental appropriations of strategic thought and the normative strictures typical of critical approaches, martial empiricism calls for an unbounded investigation into the emergent and generative character of war. Framing the accompanying special issue, we outline three domains around which to orient future research: mobilization, design and encounter. Martial empiricism is no idle exercise in philosophical speculation. It holds the promise of a research agenda apposite to the task of fully contending with the momentous possibilities and dangers of war in our time.