Racionalidad ambiental y diálogo de saberes: sentidos y senderos de un futuro sustentable

This article takes a critical stand on the analytical categories of “communicative rationality” (Habermas) and “otherness”, “infinity”, and “totality” (Lévinas), and puts them in contrast with the concepts of “enviromnental rationality”, “environmental knowledge” and “dialogue of knowledges”. Environmental rationality is constructed la the context of environmental knowledge, which is not restricted to scientific knowing. The knowledge dialog is based on a politics of difference, which supersedes ecological thought and any established system of knowledge. It rather emerges in its encounter with otherness. The construction of an environmental rationality leads to the deconstruction of the dominant systems of power and knowledge, opening new possibilities for other meanings of nature in the realm of language, and of new strategies for the appropriateness of nature through culture