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Considerate/Sustainable Development in the Experience of Modernity
Ivan ROGIć
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In the text the author investigates how and to what extent the
concept of considerate/sustainable development is culturally
founded. In the first part the author analyses the basic definition
of considerate/sustainable development and indicates that many
objections could be directed at it from the viewpoint of importance of the way in which cultural ideas participate in
shaping society. The author demonstrates that the idea of
considerate/sustainable development lacks several determinants
necessary for such activity. For example, it is not clear as to how
future generations are autonomously represented; how the social
time of transition from present to future is formed; the idea
implies prejudice towards the linear connection between the
present and future; finally, it reinforces the currently existing
society in the role of monopolistic supervisor and social creator of
future generations. With such deficiencies the idea of considerate/
sustainable development finds more accurate application in
several practical fields of managing current political, economic or
technical processes than in forming a new developmental
paradigm. In the attempt to step over the identified limitations the
author emphasises that the idea of environmental consideration
needs to be returned to its natural context: the experience of
(post)modernity. This transition enables the concept of
considerate/sustainable development to lean directly onto the
postmodern understanding of life. According to the author, there
are four key features postmodernity uses in forming the
understanding of life. These are: excess life, marginality, sanctity
and heritage. Owing to that, life is socially constituted as a
formative/fertile reality, selfpurpose, general heritage and
nonmonopolistic resource. This is why it can be adopted also as
a new universal cultural regulation making the achievement of
the cultural/environmental consensus really possible.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
19486
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.8.2003.
Posjeta: 1.398 *