Description du projet
Une étude de l’éthique environnementale de Nietzsche
En 1991, Max O. Hallman a initié un débat concernant Nietzsche et l’éthique environnementale, affirmant que la philosophie de Nietzsche ne disposait pas des fondements d’une telle éthique. Le projet NET, soutenu par le programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie, étudiera l’éthique environnementale cohésive de Nietzsche enracinée dans le concept du métabolisme. Ce cadre éthique pourrait inaugurer une nouvelle ère de viabilité en faisant le lien entre la philosophie et la sociologie. S’inspirant des propos de Nietzsche dans Ecce Homo (1888), le projet place l’alimentation, le lieu et le climat au cœur de la philosophie. Nietzsche pensait que «l’esprit» lui-même était une forme de métabolisme, considérant les humains comme des composants à part entière des processus métaboliques de la nature. Ce projet explore les débats sur la physiologie au XIXe siècle et dissèque méticuleusement les opinions de Nietzsche concernant la nutrition, l’éthique du lieu et répond aux débats contemporains sur la physiologie.
Objectif
"The debate on Nietzsche and environmental ethics was started by Max O. Hallman in 1991. Despite underlining Nietzsche’s affinities to ecological thought, he maintained that we cannot infer any environmental ethics from Nietzsche’s philosophy. Most scholars agree with Hallman. By contrast, the main objective of this project is to demonstrate for the first time that Nietzsche’s thought provides a coherent environmental ethics based on the notion of metabolism. This environmental ethics may pave the way for a new paradigm of sustainability at the intersection between diverse disciplines such as philosophy and sociology which can mitigate the impact of the Anthropocene. In his intellectual autobiography Ecce Homo (1888), Nietzsche affirms that the issues of nutrition, place, and climate must be placed at the centre of philosophy. For Nietzsche, ‘""spirit"" itself is just a type of metabolism’, and I aim to demonstrate that he considered humans parts of nature’s metabolism. With this view, Nietzsche, I shall argue, responded to the physiology debate of his time. In the light of this, I will address the following questions: What are the most recent contributions in the field of environmental ethics? What are the main positions on metabolism within the 19th-century physiology debate? What are Nietzsche’s stances on nutrition? How does Nietzsche elaborate an ethics of place? And how does Nietzsche respond to the physiology debate of his time? I will analyse Nietzsche’s works chronologically in order to show the development of Nietzsche’s ecological thinking. I will use Martin Muslow’s method of the Konstellationsforschung which examines the perspectives of the various thinkers who addressed the same problem in the same historical period, regardless of whether they were familiar with similar ideas of other philosophers or not. Following this method, I will reconstruct the debate on metabolism at Nietzsche’s time and put it into dialogue with Nietzsche’s works."
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinateur
37129 Verona
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