극한의 경험

by Yuval Noah Harari, 유발 하라리

<사피엔스> 저자 유발 하라리의 전쟁 문화사. 전쟁의 경험은 인간과 역사를 어떻게 바꾸었는가? 전쟁은 인간을 환상에서 깨어나게 하고, 인간의 성격을 완전히 바꾸며, 세상에 대한 이해도 변화시킨다. 평시에 몇십 년 동안 배워도 이해할 수 없는 것을 전투 10분 만에 깨닫게 하기도 한다. 전쟁의 극한 경험을 해보지 않은 사람은 그 깨달음을 절대 이해할 수 없다.

이런 전쟁관이 호모 사피엔스의 고유 특성처럼 보일 수 있지만, 사실 인류 문명사에 이런 시각이 등장한 것은 채 300년이 되지 않는다. 근현대에 와서야 생긴 전쟁을 이해하는 방식의 변화는 이후 군사 혁신으로 이어졌고, 전쟁 정치, 일반 사병의 지위, 군사 이론의 원리까지 바꿔놓았다. 이 책은 바로 그 변화 과정을 추적한 책이다.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, War, Military History, European History, Military Fiction

576 pages, Paperback

First published March 7, 2008

About the author

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and philosopher. He is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals working today.

Born in Israel in 1976, Harari received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Harari co-founded the social impact company Sapienship, focused on education and storytelling, with his husband, Itzik Yahav.

Reviews

[David Eisler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Before he became known for the international best-seller, Sapiens, Harari was a military historian. If you're interested in the historical development of war culture and how war came to be seen as a revelatory experience, I highly recommend "The Ultimate Experience" (or at least read the summary articles he published that explain the main arguments).

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[Caiper Popen · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is one of the less popular books by the best-selling author of "Sapiens", Yuval Noah Harari. It is about how revelatory the personal experience of war was.

I think the word "epiphany" is what I can associate with this revelatory experience. But this epiphany is the outcome of a personal experience rather than a secondhand information. It regards the sensation as the means towards revelatory experience. The author gathers warfare cultures, examines different belief systems, and analyzes predominant ideologies to identify subjects whose epiphany from personal experience is regarded as stemming from sensationalism or romanticism.

A war can either forge or shatter an individual. The extension of peace confines the populace in the illusion of life. Experiences in war expose individuals to suffering and death that can have either positive or negative effects accompanied by disillusionment.

This book provides detailed accounts of soldiers' feelings in the midst of warfare, capturing the sensation of ongoing uncertainty. Among the presented propositions, the excerpt from "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy got me more interested in the novel, as well as by the work of Carl Von Clausewitz "On War".

[Ganyat · Rating 5 out of 5]

gràcies, Harari, per fer del meu TFG un TFG millor