战争、权力及其他——解读福柯的“永恒战争”与权力话语

Interpretation of Foucault’s Perpetual War and Utterance of Power

克劳塞维茨认为,"毁灭对方的趋势乃为战争观念之基础,并不因为文明的进步而有所改变"。如果说战争的"暴力行动"的物质属性自古以来确实如此,那么战争的精神属性则相反,它不仅承载着民族自身的、久远的文化,而且随着人类文明的进步不断发展、变化,特别是在物质文明高速发展的现代社会,它甚至成为潜在的战争的主导因素。福柯从更深广的层面,意识到战争的这种隐性特征,因而提出"永恒战争"的命题,而他的权力话语则是其最好的注脚。

Clausewitz holds that the basis of war concept is the desire to destroy the opponents, which is not changed because of the civilization progress. If the material property of war violence is really as Clausewitz believes, then its spiritual property is the opposite, which not only bears upon remote na- tional cultures, but changes along with the constant progress and change of human civilization, especially in the modem society of rapid development of material civilization, and even becomes the main cause of potential wars. Clausewitz realizes the potential property of war and therefore comes up with the proposition of ＂perpetual war＂, of which his utterance of power is the best interpretation.