Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Reports |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/172209 |
| Document | publication document |
| Title (Primary) | Degrowth, modernity, and the open society |
| Author | Strunz, S.; Bartkowski, B. |
| Journal | UFZ Discussion Papers |
| Year | 2017 |
| Department | OEKON |
| Volume | 7/2017 |
| Page To | 21 |
| Language | englisch |
| Abstract | Critiques of modernity often align with critiques of the existing institutions of lib-eral democracy. We argue that the degrowth movement can learn from the experience of past critiques of modernity by avoiding their major mistake - that is, (inadvertently) conflating a critique of modernity with a rejection of liberal democratic institutions. Hence, we suggest to frame degrowth as the promotion of new vocabularies within a deliberative account of democ-racy. Specifically, we proceed in three steps: first, we briefly review some essential critiques of modernity and their stance towards liberal democracy. Second, we illustrate how some of the argumentative patterns within the degrowth literature may inadvertently endanger core values of the open society. Third, we introduce our perspective on a liberal degrowth that aims to fulfil the "unfinished project of modernity". |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=20914 |
| Strunz, S., Bartkowski, B. (2017): Degrowth, modernity, and the open society UFZ Discussion Papers 7/2017 Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 21 pp. |
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