2025-04Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
War Experience and the Breakdown of the World: Ukrainian War Literature

Abstract: This article examines contemporary Ukrainian war literature as a site where the experience of war reveals a fundamental breakdown of meaning, knowledge, and selfhood. Analyzing works by Artur Dron, Artem Chapeye, Artem Chekh, and Oleksandr Mykhed, it argues that war produces an irreducible gap between mediated knowledge and lived experience, akin to the philosophical…