Insofar as development implies economic growth, the term 'sustainable development' appears to some as a contradiction in terms. However, such conclusions still lack a thorough examination of the conceptual structure of the two terms between which there is a purported contradiction. In order to address this issue, the present paper scrutinises some of the assumptions which underwrite the ideologies of sustainability and of development. It is argued that there are key assumptions which both ideas have in common, and that sustainable development is thus perfectly coherent on a conceptual level. It is alternatives which retain either term (such as 'sustainable degrowth') that are embroiled in paradox. The paper then examines two concepts for criticising the ideology of economic growth in other terms: depense and conviviality. It is argued that the latter is preferable to the former for the purpose of developing post-sustainable critiques of growth.

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可持续退化的悖论和欢乐的替代方案

就发展意味着经济增长而言，“可持续发展”一词在某些人看来是自相矛盾的。然而，这样的结论仍然缺乏对两个术语的概念结构的彻底检查，这两个术语之间存在所谓的矛盾。为了解决这个问题，本文仔细研究了一些支持可持续性和发展意识形态的假设。有人认为，这两种观点都有一些共同的关键假设，因此可持续发展在概念层面上是完全一致的。保留任何一个术语（例如“可持续退化”）的替代方案陷入了悖论。然后，本文考察了用其他术语批评经济增长意识形态的两个概念：依赖和欢乐。