Abstract
The future has long been viewed in terms of modernity’s human-centered categories of innovation, emancipation, progress, and civilization (which have historically been predominantly coded as white and male), while nature has been shoved to the realm of the ahistorical, understood as a fixed background for the development of society. These categories entail the subterfuge that the future is always “ours” to shape and build. They are deeply rooted in the transformation of the Christian doctrine of the Apocalypse during the early Renaissance, which carried the shift from a belief in humankind’s future redemption by God to the secular ideology of progress that assumed that humans themselves actively contribute to the shaping of a better future.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 240-244 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Environmental Humanities |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
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©2016 Céline Granjou and Juan Francisco Salazar. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/)Keywords
- civilization
- philosophy