Vital Ecology vs. Dark Ecology: The Dispute of the Ecological Event and the Influence of the History of Philosophy
Keywords:
Ecology, Vitalism, Death, World, Exceedance, EmptyAbstract
One of the fundamental challenges facing contemporary philosophy is the ecological crisis. Different concepts emerge to explain this new scenario: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or Chthulucene. For the latter, the fundamental issue is to imagine a new
global scenario that incorporates new agents, in addition to humans: plants, animals, objects, bacteria, and technological devices. Despite this majority consensus that calls for the generation of new post-metaphysical frameworks to think about the planet, a conceptual controversy is raging in philosophy around apprehending the ecological event. On the one hand, we have the vitalist and immanentist tradition that defends continuity and exceedance to apprehend ecology. Conversely, the transcendentalist tradition is positioned, whose central concern is discontinuity, death, and emptiness.
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