1st Edition
Life Imaginaries, Environmental Rationality, and Dialogue of Savoirs The Sustainability of Life
1. Imaginaries of Life
Introduction
Cornelius Castoriadis: The Imaginary Institution of Life
The Imaginary Institution of Life and the Limit Laws of Nature
The Cultural Imaginaries of Entropy and Negentropy
2. Political Ontology
The Subjected Subject and Reinventing Collective Identities
Power in Knowledge and the Politicization of Ontology
The The Postmodern Turn of Political Ontology
3. The Rationality of Modernity and the Emancipation of Life
Max Weber: The Rationality of the Modern World
The Philosophical Category of Environmental Rationality
Environmental Rationality, Otherness, and the Dialogue of Savoirs
Jürgen Habermas and Communicative Rationality
Emmanuel Levinas and the Ethics of Otherness
4. The Historical Transition toward the Sustainability of Life
Introduction
Thinking Life in the Immanence of Life
The “Truth of Being” and the Conditions for Life
The World of Gestell, Techno-economic Rationality, and the Immanence of Life
Grounding Environmental Rationality in Life Territories
Horizons of Sustainability and the Dialogue of Knowledge/Savoirs
Epilogue
Biography
Enrique Leff is Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Social Research and the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Emeritus Researcher at the National Council of Humanities, Science, and Technology (CONAHCyT), Mexico. He was the former coordinator of the Environmental Training Network for Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations Environment Program. He is the author of Physis, Biopower, and Biothermodynamics: The Fire of Life (Routledge, 2024), Heidegger in the Face of the Environmental Question: The Immanence of Life (Routledge, 2024), Political Ecology: Deconstructing Capital and Territorializing Life (2021), and Green Production: Towards an Environmental Rationality (1995).
