Redescription of the Life Chances-Oriented Understanding of Sustainability Based on Neopragmatism
摘要
In the previous chapters, we drew attention to problems associated with currently dominant understandings of sustainable development, such as strong normative claims or epistemological underdetermination. It has also become clear that established models, such as existing institutional arrangements, are struggling to adequately address the multitude of current and future challenges. Neopragmatism and a life chances orientation, however, provide theoretical approaches that allow sustainable development to be understood beyond essentialist claims to truth, teleological goals, and desires for harmony. Following on from the life chances approach and neopragmatism, social transformations depend in a particular way on how people coordinate their relationships with themselves and the world in resonant processes. Against this background, this chapter forms the core of our book, in which we draft a neopragmatic redescription of sustainable development.