Cosmologia e política no Antropoceno

Abstract

This article seeks to examine the issue of cosmopolitanism in the light of the ongoing socio-environmental catastrophe, baptized by many as Anthropocene. The relations between science and politics are discussed based on the entropological considerations of Levi-Strauss and Prigogine & Stengers, among others. It develops the hypothesis that human politics is essentially characterized by a thermodynamic potential, capable of driving society, together with the environment, to catastrophic collapse. In this sense, it is concluded that the transcendental principle of teleological conformity of nature, taken from Kant and Bergson, gives rise to a kind of cosmic fascism.