Abstract
<jats:p>Purpose of the study. The purpose of the research is to develop the conceptual foundations of the socio-cultural phenomenology of war as an interdisciplinary philosophical approach that reveals its structure not only as a socio-political event, but also as a deeply rooted cultural and existential experience, represented in narratives, rituals and institutions of various historical eras. The research methodology is based on an interdisciplinary synthesis of philosophical phenomenology (E. Husserl, M. Merleau-Ponty), hermeneutics (G. Gadamer, P. Ricoeur), critical theory (T. Adorno, M. Horkheimer, M. Foucault) and philosophy of culture, which allows for a multi-level analysis of war as a phenomenon of consciousness, discourse and cultural practice. The results of the study substantiate the key provisions of the socio-cultural phenomenology of war.: 1) distinguishing war as an event and war as a stable symbolic structure of culture; 2) identifying the evolution of the legitimization of violence from sacred to rational-ideological and humanitarian-ethical discourses; 3) proving the immanent connection of totalitarian wars with the crisis of the modern project; 4) critical analysis of the «new military humanism» as a paradoxical form of legitimization of violence in conditions of postmodernity. The prospects of the research are seen in the further development of the epistemology of armed conflicts in the context of digitalization, an in-depth analysis of the anthropology of «hybrid wars», as well as in the application of the proposed approach to the study of modern forms of information warfare and the transformation of collective memory about violence in the global media space.</jats:p>