Abstract
The concept of the Anthropocene finds its origins in geology and assumes that humanity has become a geological force, changing the Earth’s environment in an unprecedented scale, blurring the dividing line between nature and society. This new understanding of the power of human beings is accompanied by the demand for a revolution in values capable of providing ways to deal with the situation we find ourselves in. The purpose of this paper is to briefly explore the use of the notion of Anthropocene as the focal point of an understanding of the radically new character of the current situation by way of its approximation to Hannah Arendt’s notion of acting into nature, as well as to probe the critical analyses on value both of Arendt and Herbert Marcuse to provide a sketch of a possible way of dealing with the Anthropocene’s demand for a revolution in values.
Highlights
Resumo O conceito de Antropoceno tem a sua origem na geologia e assume que a humanidade se tornou uma força geológica, transformando o ambiente da Terra numa escala sem precedentes, tornado difusa a linha divisória entre natureza e sociedade
O propósito deste artigo é explorar, de modo breve, o uso da noção de Antropoceno como ponto focal de uma compreensão do caráter radicalmente novo da atual situação por via da sua aproximação à noção de ação na natureza de Hannah Arendt, bem como sondar as análises críticas do valor quer de Arendt, quer de Herbert Marcuse com vista a fornecer um esboço de um modo possível de lidar com a reivindicação de novos valores proveniente do Antropoceno
In The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt states that human beings have begun acting into nature, in the sense of having started to create natural processes that would have never come to existence without human intervention (ARENDT, 1959, p. 231)
Summary
Resumo O conceito de Antropoceno tem a sua origem na geologia e assume que a humanidade se tornou uma força geológica, transformando o ambiente da Terra numa escala sem precedentes, tornado difusa a linha divisória entre natureza e sociedade.
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