Devoção e convicção no antropoceno

I discuss how a broader concept of nihilism might take shape, using some “anthropocenes” or scenes from the ongoing climate war theater. The following ones are highlighted: carbon economy, negationism, anthropocentrism, technosciences of prosperity, scientific devotion and scientific creation. The main hypothesis concerns Nietzschean “will to truth”. It remains a comprehensive and powerful critique of the powerlessness to create values and the desperation to create commodities. The very idea of progress turns out to be an important philosophical question. Given that “theology” is not necessarily a marked term in Nietzsche's work, we will discuss the survival of theology, especially in the scientific field, based on the "death of “god” and its unburied corpse, which means some pervasive system of convictions underneath technoscience. A secondary hypothesis is that the concept of nihilism, quite worn out, has camouflaged itself and reappeared in contemporary approaches to science (sociology of technique, social studies of science, etc.)

First world war · Nihilism · Scientific literature · Scientific progress · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophical Thought and Analysis · Philosophy and Historical Thought