On January 25, TBC Gallery hosted a presentation of ‘HOMO MILITARIS’, a book written by Kakha Katsitadze, a philosopher.
What is war? Why do humans view the world as battlefield victory or defeat? Is it possible to broaden the narrow political understanding of war and consider it in the philosophical, cultural, anthropologic and historic context? – these are the issues addressed by Kakha Katsitadze.
In the archaic cultures like Scandinavia, Iceland, the Caucasus and Georgia, the war is analyzed as a form of special openness.
“The war is the point of human existence at which people are open for both divine and evil. None of the spheres of human activity seem to expose such openness as war”, says the author.
Lela Gaprindashvili, the editor of the book: “The book by Kakha Katsitadze deals with war culture, militarism and makes quite a good attempt to go beyond the military-political perspective of the war and attach some philosophical meaning to it”.
Lela Gaprindashvili is an Associated Professor of the Department of Social and Political Studies at Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
The scientific editors of the book are David Tevzadze, Vakhtang Kapanadze, Guram Sanadiradze and Kakha Jamburia.
The financial support for publishing the book was provided by the Open Society Georgia Foundation (OSGF).
The book is available at the OSGF library at 10 Chovelidze St. (the first floor).
