An Analysis of the Alienation of the Relationship between Human and Nature Based on Hartmut Rosa’s Theory of Social Acceleration
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: 围绕哈特穆特·罗萨的社会加速理论，探讨在现代社会加速背景下，人与自然关系的异化现象。通过对社会加速的三个维度——科技加速、社会变迁加速和生活节奏加速的分析，揭示了加速带来的人与自然之间的疏离。特别是，随着科技的迅猛发展，生产方式和日常生活节奏的加快，人与自然的直接关系日益淡化，形成了“缺乏关系的关系”的异化状态。这种异化不仅表现在人与自然的物质关系上，也体现在认知、情感及文化层面的疏离。异化的生成是为了寻求一种可能的途径，推动向“后增长社会”转化为新异化的解放，生态共鸣意在引起(人)主体与(自然)世界相互呼应，为失去的人与自然关系构建通行之路，是人与自然相互触动、吸收转化、不受控制的关系结构。Centering on Hartmut Rosa’s theory of social acceleration, this paper explores the phenomenon of alienation in the relationship between humans and nature in the context of modern society’s accelerating pace. Analyzing the three dimensions of social acceleration—technological acceleration, social change acceleration, and the acceleration of life rhythms—reveals the estrangement between humans and nature brought about by acceleration. Particularly, with the rapid development of technology and the acceleration of production methods and daily life rhythms, the direct relationship between humans and nature has increasingly weakened, leading to an alienated state of “relationships lacking in substance”. This alienation is not only manifested in the material relationship between humans and nature but also in the cognitive, emotional, and cultural estrangement. The generation of alienation aims to seek a possible path to transform into a new form of liberation in a “post-growth society”. Ecological resonance aims to evoke a mutual response between the (human) subject and the (natural) world, building a passageway for the lost relationship between humans and nature. It is a relationship structure where humans and nature interact, absorb and transform each other, and are not subject to control.
Source: Advances in Philosophy
Author: 沿 潘
Institution: Nanjing Forestry University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4412387858