Despite decades of emancipatory mobilization, there is no realistic prospect for any profound socio-ecological transformation of contemporary consumer societies. Instead, social inequality and ecological destruction are on the rise and an autocratic-authoritarian turn is reshaping even the most established liberal democracies. In explaining these phenomena, the struggle for autonomy and emancipation is an important parameter that has not received sufficient attention so far. This article investigates these phenomena through the lens of the dialectic of emancipation – a concept that I have suggested elsewhere and that I here further elaborate, placing particular emphasis on the relationship between the rule-transgressing and the rule-setting capacities of the emancipatory project. The article specifies constitutive dimensions of the emancipatory project, explores their ongoing reinterpretation and reconfiguration and thus explains how the emancipatory logic itself has come to obstruct the socio-ecological transformation and to nurture new forms of authoritarian governance.

尽管进行了数十年的解放动员，但当代消费社会的任何深刻的社会生态转型都没有现实前景。相反，社会不平等和生态破坏正在加剧，即使是最成熟的自由民主国家，专制-威权的转变也在重塑。在解释这些现象时，争取自治和解放的斗争是一个迄今为止尚未得到足够重视的重要参数。本文通过的镜头考察这些现象解放的辩证关系 -一个概念，我在其他地方建议，而我在这里进一步阐述，特别强调对之间的关系规则逾矩和规则制定解放项目的能力。文章详细说明了解放计划的构成维度，探讨了它们正在进行的重新解释和重新配置，从而解释了解放逻辑本身如何阻碍社会生态转型并培育新的威权治理形式。