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Articles from Acta Academica: Critical views on society, culture and politics

Ecomodernism – defending a new humanist approach to nature

<jats:p> I defend here Luc Ferry’s new humanist approach to nature, ecomodernism, outlined in his Les Sept Ecologies (2021). Ferry’s notion of a “second humanism” takes into account...
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Thinking nature as home: from transcendental homelessness to oikeiosis

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Critical theory and human nature: Hartmut Rosa’s resonance theory from an evolutionary-anthropological perspective

<jats:p> In one of the major contributions to current Critical Theory in the 21st century, Hartmut Rosa employs the notion of resonant subject-world-relationships to critically analyse stru...
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Editorial: Why is the world at war

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Critical Theory and nature in the 21st century

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Why is the world at war?

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Problematising the discursive bases of contemporary ecopolitical vanguardism in social ecology and ecosocialism

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The separation from nature and separated subjects: critical investigations with Theodor W. Adorno and Françoise d’Eaubonne

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The nature of communication and the communication of nature: revisiting critical theory and nature through decolonial environmental communication and human rights education in Brazil

<jats:p>The ways in which Western capitalist societies have exploited communication practices and media are similar to the exploitation and instrumentalisation of nature. In this paper, we want ...
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Women’s precarity in a globalised world: an ecofeminist perspective

<jats:p> As French philosopher, anthropologist and sociolo­ gist Bruno Latour noted, “[f]rom the time the term ‘politics’ was invented, every type of politics has been defined by its re...
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