On the colonization of the environment

IF 2.3 1区 社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY European Journal of Social Theory Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI:10.1177/13684310231188888
Felix Kämper
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In this article, I apply the colonization thesis from Jürgen Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action to capitalist societies’ relationships with their natural environment. Resolving the fixation of his critique of capitalism on the so-called lifeworld ( Lebenswelt) to include questions of the environment ( Umwelt) opens up new vistas in the ongoing ecological reorientation of Critical Theory. If we think about the exploitation of the natural environment in Habermasian terms, the paradoxical irrationality of the expansion of instrumental rationality from the market mechanism becomes evident, providing us with normative leverage against the systemic devastation of external nature. The conversed colonization thesis calls for promoting the ecological preconditions for self-determined societal development through the collective containment of capitalist dynamics: since it undermines the enabling capacities of the ecosystems based on which the ‘project of modernity’ thrives, economic instrumentalization of nature can no longer proliferate.
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论环境的殖民化
在本文中,我将哈贝马斯交往行为理论中的殖民理论应用于资本主义社会与其自然环境的关系。解决他对资本主义的批判对所谓的生活世界(Lebenswelt)的固定,包括环境(Umwelt)的问题,为批判理论正在进行的生态重新定位开辟了新的前景。如果我们用哈贝马斯的术语来思考对自然环境的开发,那么从市场机制中扩展工具理性的矛盾的非理性就变得显而易见,为我们提供了对抗外部自然系统破坏的规范杠杆。相反的殖民化理论要求通过对资本主义动力的集体遏制来促进自我决定的社会发展的生态前提:因为它破坏了基于“现代性项目”蓬勃发展的生态系统的能力,自然的经济工具化不再能够扩散。
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期刊介绍: An internationally respected journal with a wide-reaching conception of social theory, the European Journal of Social Theory brings together social theorists and theoretically-minded social scientists with the objective of making social theory relevant to the challenges facing the social sciences in the 21st century. The European Journal of Social Theory aims to be a worldwide forum of social thought. The Journal welcomes articles on all aspects of the social, covering the whole range of contemporary debates in social theory. Reflecting some of the commonalities in European intellectual life, contributors might discuss the theoretical contexts of issues such as the nation state, democracy, citizenship, risk; identity, social divisions, violence, gender and knowledge.
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