La funzione critico-negativa del dualismo natura-cultura nel pensiero ecologista

Abstract

The evident inability to create a productive and social system based on alternative models to those that currently govern the planet has determined, in recent years, a series of consequences also for ecologism itself. The first, and most evident, is that ecological struggles have undergone progressive marginalization and, increasingly, general criminalization. The second, more strictly theoretical, is that even before ecologism saw its margins for action reduce, a series of theories began to question its basic assumptions from within, starting with the certainly most important one: nature-culture dualism. This essay intends to question the assumption of the different theoretical positions which, in order to hastily free themselves from the concept of nature, have inevitably also had to lose the critical-negative value of this concept, just as this had found expression in the field of thought ecological and in that of critical thinking in general.