02.02.2022 - 02.02.2022
Discussion

An environmental history of political ideas: epistemological and critical perspectives

The planetary crisis calls for a renewed understanding of political and social ideas. Far from being totally estranged to the material world, as ecological thought sometimes suggested, modern political ideas are full of prescriptions on how the land and the territory should be managed, and those prescriptions resonate in how freedom is understood and organised. In this talk, the philosopher Pierre Charbonnier (CNRS / Centre d'Etudes Européennes of Sciences Po (Paris)) will develop some of the implications of his approach to the history of political ideas for contemporary critical thought.