Finite world and open future. Finality and growth criticism in contemporary political thought

该项目关注世俗化的时间和进度概念对经济增长理论及其生态批评的影响。潜在的研究假设是，世俗化导致了现代进步和增长观念的发展，这些观念源于基于生活的时间观念向基于世界的观念的转变。生活时间和世界时间之间的联系不仅导致了现代增长思想的持续存在，而且同样导致了以增长为基础的社会模式的危机。时间性、终结性概念和成长批评之间的联系还没有得到研究者的足够重视。在此背景下，该项目还旨在展示为什么生态政治思想--出现在20世纪70年代，主要是由于人们对生命自然基础的终局性和脆弱性的看法--诊断出增长范式的危机。对这一学派的部分贡献将分析它们在人类历史潜在终结性的条件下维持开放未来的潜力，以及可能对自由产生不利影响的末日观念。

The project is concerned with the impact of secularised conceptions of time and progress on economic growth theories and their ecological critique. The underlying research hypothesis is that secularisation led to the development of modern ideas of progress and growth that stem from a transfer of life-based conceptions of time to world-based conceptions. The linkage between life-time and world-time did not only contribute to the persistency of the modern idea of growth, but led equally to a crisis of the growth-based model of society. The connection between temporality, conceptions of finality, and growth criticism has not received sufficient attention from researchers. Against this backdrop, the project also aims to show why ecological political thought – which emerged in the 1970s not least due to the perception of the finality and fragility of the natural basis of life – diagnoses a crisis of the growth paradigm. Selected contributions to this school of thought will be analysed for their potential to sustain an open future under the condition of human history’s potential finality, and for apocalyptic notions, that may have adverse implications for liberty.