Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Contemporary debates in political ecology tend more and more to be held on the ontological level, where they are recomposed around the following alternative: should one conceive of nature as the order of reality that transcends society and that should be protected from the excesses of the latter? Or should one renounce the very partitioning of nature and society itself in order to imagine new, more sustainable, ecological arrangeents E a ining bot Bruno Latour s and Jason Moore s takes on t is alternati e we argue that it should be overcome in favor of a naturalist and historical ontology of society ins ired by t e young Mar s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. In this historico-naturalist perspective, social relations indeed appear as both determined by their environmental conditions as well as determining the uses of a collective make of its environment. The interest in this approach is to allow one to conceive of social alienation and environmental destruction as two sides of a same process which should therefore be conjointly addressed.
Source: Dialogue and Universalism
DOI: 10.5840/du201828350
Authors: Paul Guillibert, Frédéric Monferrand
Language: English
Topic: Marxism and Critical Theory
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2893622493