Abstract
Environmental issues captures international attention in a daily base and shapes in a great extent the fantasies of contemporary society about an imminent Apocalypse. Again and again the end of the world is announced coupled with apocalyptic settings based in a Nature’s revenge for being victim of the irresponsible and devastating human progress. Our aim is to propose a utopian approach to environmental crisis to cope with the following issues: counter-instructions from classical utopias, anti-utopian claims against political alternatives, institutional solutions based on sustainability and paralyzing fears from a frightening ecologism. Also, we will try to elucidate ontological differences between Modern and Post-Modern utopia, reclaiming the need and feasibility of a new utopianism.
Highlights
Environmental issues captures international attention in a daily base and shapes in a great extent the fantasies of contemporary society about an imminent Apocalypse
And again the end of the world is announced coupled with apocalyptic settings based in a Nature’s revenge for being victim of the irresponsible and devastating human progress
Our aim is to propose a utopian approach to environmental crisis to cope with the following issues: counter-instructions from classical utopias, anti-utopian claims against political alternatives, institutional solutions based on sustainability and paralyzing fears from a frightening ecologism
Summary
La distopía literaria estándar comparte tabla de valores con las utopías ruralistas en los aspectos referentes a la dilemática natural-artificial, pero agrega matices vinculados a la teoría de la racionalidad sumamente interesantes. Las novelas distópicas emiten de esta manera una versión para todos los públicos de la premisa según la cual la interrelación de un avasallamiento y otro tiene en la transformación baconiana del conocimiento en poder y en la transformación mecanicista de la naturaleza en materia huérfana de fines y valores a dos de sus resortes. La asunción de supuestos heideggerianos cuestionables —el principal de ellos asegura que la tecnología escapa al control humano y determina por sí sola el destino de la civilización— le lleva a postular una relación causal inevitable entre el dominio de la naturaleza-natural y la destrucción del medioambiente necesitada, nos parece, de un mejor argumentario
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