Abstract:The aim of this article is to assess the validity of the culturalist explanation of unsustainability by critically examining the social-cultural interpretation of the risks on which it is epistemologically based. First, we will explore the different ways in which the notion of Anthropocene is changing our perception of risks. Second, we will analyze the limits of the social-cultural explanation of risks relative to the global (non-linear) interdependence between human activities and environmental processes that defines the Anthropocene. Third, we will introduce the Chinese concept of Ecological Civilization and analyze its cultural foundations and culturalist assumptions. Finally, we will develop the practical consequences of this critic of the social-cultural interpretation of risks and of culturalist explanations of unsustainability.
Vouloir étudier les notions de double et de dédoublement, c’est tenter de
repenser la notion d’identité. C’est chercher à saisir la constitution de la
subjectivité et de la personne dans le rapport du Je et de l’autre, c’est chercher à
penser leur rapport : pas simplement de l’autre en tant que autrui mais de l’autre
en tant que autre du Je. Et cela à différents niveaux autant philosophique, que
politique et psychologique. Au point de vue philosophique et plus encore
épistémologique, notre intention serait de redéfinir la notion de « sujet » pour
sortir du point de vue classique en s’aidant notamment des concepts propres au champ
de la physique quantique. Il faudrait penser une figure de la subjectivité
n’impliquant pas nécessairement l’identité à soi.
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