A different kind of emancipation? From lifestyle to form-of-life

IF 2.3 1区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

European Journal of Social Theory Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI:10.1177/13684310211027331

L. Pellizzoni

引用次数: 3

Abstract

The modern outlook on emancipation has made its quest inseparable from a quest for endless enhancement, based on an ever-more intensive exploitation of the biophysical world. This accounts for how unsustainable ways of living are reiterated worldwide, in spite of evidence of their deleterious effects. The underpinnings of unsustainability, and a major impediment to conceiving alternatives, come from an account of the human as ontologically indeterminate, crushed on doing, both vulnerable and powerful towards the world. The impasse of such ambivalence hampers social theory critique, from post-humanist ontologies to the case for degrowth and lifestyle politics. The article outlines a different take on emancipation. An account is provided of form-of-life as a doing tailored to being – not as a self-enclosed monad but as a result of the encounter between own ‘inclination’ and the world. This theoretical perspective discloses a research program on emergent mobilisations.

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一种不同的解放?从生活方式到生命形式

现代的解放观把它的追求与无止境的提高的追求分不开，这种追求是建立在对生物物理世界日益密集的开发的基础上的。这就解释了为什么不可持续的生活方式在世界范围内反复出现，尽管有证据表明它们的有害影响。不可持续性的基础，以及设想替代方案的主要障碍，来自于人类在本体论上不确定的描述，在行动中被压垮，对世界既脆弱又强大。这种矛盾心理的僵局阻碍了社会理论的批判，从后人文主义本体论到去增长和生活方式政治。这篇文章概述了对解放的不同看法。生命的形式被描述为一种为存在量身定做的行为——不是一种自我封闭的单子，而是自己的“倾向”与世界相遇的结果。这一理论视角揭示了一个关于紧急动员的研究计划。

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European Journal of Social Theory SOCIOLOGY-

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4.70

自引率

4.80%

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期刊介绍： An internationally respected journal with a wide-reaching conception of social theory, the European Journal of Social Theory brings together social theorists and theoretically-minded social scientists with the objective of making social theory relevant to the challenges facing the social sciences in the 21st century. The European Journal of Social Theory aims to be a worldwide forum of social thought. The Journal welcomes articles on all aspects of the social, covering the whole range of contemporary debates in social theory. Reflecting some of the commonalities in European intellectual life, contributors might discuss the theoretical contexts of issues such as the nation state, democracy, citizenship, risk; identity, social divisions, violence, gender and knowledge.