Radicalizing the philosophical foundations of environmental ethics and political ecology: A metaphysical criticism of modernity and a program of a life phenomenology as its possible overcoming

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https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v62i0.85348

Keywords:

life, flesh, living, ethics, ecology

Abstract

Our article intends to reflect in order to determine to what extent the development of life sciences, on the one hand, and of biopolitics, on the other, is still nourished by the same metaphysical presuppositions that have led to an environmental crisis and, consequently, do not represent a radical alternative for its overcoming. The purpose is to outline a work program around our living condition, where a reflection that can genuinely aspire to environmental ethics as a political ecology worthy of such name should be normatively founded.

Author Biography

Cristobal Balbontin Gallo, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Los Ríos. IRePH-Université Paris, Nanterre

Cristóbal BALBONTIN-GALLO: Doctor en Filosofía por la Universität J.W. Goethe Frankfurt am Main y la Université Paris-Nanterre bajo la dirección de Axel Honneth y Catherine Chalier. Actualmente se desempeña como profesor auxiliar de la Universidad Austral de Chile y como investigador asociado al Institut des Recherches Philosophiques (IRePh) de la Université Paris-Nanterre. Correo electrónico: cbalbonting@gmail.com.

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Published

2023-09-14

How to Cite

Balbontin Gallo, C. (2023). Radicalizing the philosophical foundations of environmental ethics and political ecology: A metaphysical criticism of modernity and a program of a life phenomenology as its possible overcoming. Desenvolvimento E Meio Ambiente, 62. https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v62i0.85348

Issue

Vol. 62 (2023): Psychoanalysis, philosophy and political ecology - Water, Sanitation and SDGs in Brazil: challenges, contradictions and governance

Section

Psychoanalysis, philosophy and political ecology

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