@conference {1984,
	title = {The liberation of human and non-human world and the critique of instrumental rationality: Degrowth and Green Critical Theory},
	booktitle = {Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity},
	year = {2014},
	address = {Leipzig},
	abstract = {<p>The crisis of unsustainability we are going through today is one of the dramatic symptoms of a collapsing paradigm of society based on consumerism, productivism, industrialism, modern technology and technocracy. All these characteristics are linked to the domination of instrumental rationality (a means-orientated mentality and perspective) in almost all areas of human life and in our relations with the non-human world. The early Frankfurt School theorists share a common account with radical Greens theorists when criticizing the negative implications of the Enlightenment, such as the dark side of scientism, industrialism and modernity that led to the {\textquoteleft}disenchantment of the world{\textquoteright} (Weber) and to the non (although expected) liberation of humanity. In this paper, I will show to what extent early critical theory, before Habermas{\textquoteright} shift towards liberal democracy, could provide the Degrowth movement with a relevant philosophical theory of social change, allowing the renewal of ethos and practises that constitutes one of the vital priorities today if we want to re-orientate political and economic thinking away from current unsustainability.</p>},
	keywords = {Critical theory, degrowth, domination, human and non-human nature, instrumental reason, liberation},
	author = {Anne FREMAUX}
}
