Epistemology of risk and the weave of life in three authors from the critical modernity: Jonas, Beck and Giddens

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Published: 2013-12-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17163/uni.n19.2013.09
Keywords:
Epistemology, epistemology of risk, technical culture, knowledge control, life, knowledge coloniality, nature coloniality, decolonial thinking.

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José Enrique Juncosa

Abstract

The article explores the epistemological dimension of risk and its implications in the weave of life and the future of the living according to three authors of the critique of modernity: Hans Jonas, Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens. One of the identifying elements is the denial of the “not-knowing” that deprives society of its restrictive capacity in face of risk-based decisions and prevents the social control of knowledge, science and technique. This imprint is proposed as one of the characteristic features of coloniality of knowledge and nature together with others such as anthropocentrism, alienating dualism and the unstoppable feature of development and progress due to a temporal linearity than encourages them. Finally, I proposed a scope, limits and links with decolonial thinking.

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No. 19 (2013): (july-december 2013)
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Research
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