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Emancipation in the Anthropocene: Taking the dialectic seriously
European Journal of Social Theory ( IF 1.766 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 , DOI: 10.1177/13684310211028148
Andrew Dobson 1
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The purpose of this article is to articulate a conception of emancipation for the Anthropocene. First, the Kantian roots of emancipation understood as the capacity of rational beings to act according to self-chosen ends are explained. It is shown that this conception of emancipation sets the realm of autonomous beings humans over the realm of heteronomous beings. Accounts of the ‘humanisation of nature’ are analysed as incomplete attempts to overcome this dualism. It is argued that the root of this incompleteness lies in the application of analytical rather than dialectical reason to the human–nature interaction. The Anthropocene is presented as the geological–historical moment when at the same time as nature is being humanised, humans are being made aware of themselves as animal. This gives way to a conception of Anthropocene emancipation which will be described in a fourth section. The article concludes with reflections on COVID-19 as a ‘disease of the Anthropocene’ and as an opportunity reflexively, and at unprecedented scale, to internalise our heteronomy and to live an emancipation fit for a terraforming species.



中文翻译:

人类世的解放:认真对待辩证法

本文的目的是阐明人类世的解放概念。首先,解放的康德根源被理解为理性存在者根据自我选择的目的行动的能力。结果表明,这种解放思想将自主存在的人类领域置于他律存在的领域之上。“自然人性化”的描述被分析为克服这种二元论的不完整尝试。有人认为,这种不完整性的根源在于对人与自然相互作用的分析而非辩证理性的应用。人类世被呈现为地质历史时刻,在自然被人性化的同时,人类也意识到自己是动物。这让位于人类世解放的概念,这将在第四部分中描述。文章最后将 COVID-19 反思为“人类世的疾病”,并反思性地、以前所未有的规模将我们的他律内化并为适应地球化物种的解放生活提供机会。

更新日期:2021-06-30
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