Heterotopia as an Environmental and Political Concept: The Case of Hannah Arendt's Philosophy

Urszula Lisowska

Environmental Values, 2022, vol. 31, issue 3, 345-363

Abstract: The paper offers a new model of politics adequate for the Anthropocene epoch. It uses the concept of ‘heterotopia’ to argue for the environmental potential of Arendtian political philosophy. The adopted meaning of heterotopia combines its Foucauldian (as interpreted by L. De Cauter and M. Dehaene) and medical sources. It is argued that, thus understood, the concept can be applied to the Arendtian idea of judgment. In this capacity, the concept of heterotopia is both politically foundational and environmentally relevant. It helps us maintain the idea of politics as humanely construed activity, while recognising that political actors are also natural beings, whose actions draw on and affect the non-human world.

Keywords: Heterotopia; Anthropocene; judgment; the world; culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.3197/096327121X16141642287665

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