Ecology/Ontology a Contribution to Historical Naturalism

• Authors: Guillibert Paul , Monferrand Frédéric
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Contemporary debates in political ecology tend more and more to be held on the on-tological 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 pro-tected 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 arrange-ments? Examining both Bruno Latour’s and Jason Moore’s takes on this alternative we argue that it should be overcome in favor of a naturalist and historical ontology of socie-ty inspired by the young Marx’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.

Keywords

EN

political ecology; social ontology; alienation; capitalism; Karl Marx; Bruno Latour; Jason W. Moore

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 245-251

Contributors

author

Guillibert Paul

• Nanterre University/Sophiapol, 92000 Nanterre, France

author

Monferrand Frédéric

• Nanterre University/Sophiapol, 92000 Nanterre, France