Foreword

This publication is a part of a broader attempt to revisit the place and role of contemporary science, especially the humanities and social sciences, in face of an increasing socio-political condition of conflict. More specifically, it is an attempt to call into question our basic epistemic approach to conflicts, our basic understanding of the nature of conflicts. This inquiry does so by explicitly asking about the epistemology of conflicts, and by formulating the fundamental question of such an epistemology: what are conflicts — social, political, cultural, religious, cognitive, emotional, moral — as events of knowledge?