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Sustainable Development and Life Chances: A Redescription from a Neo-Pragmatist Perspective

Sustainable Development and Life Chances: A Redescription from a Neo-Pragmatist Perspective

Kühne, Olaf
Silina, Irina
Berr, Karsten

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Series: Neopragmatic Horizontal Geographies, Book 3

Environmental StudiesGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 3032201810
ISBN13: 9783032201812
Publisher: Springer
Published: Apr 14 2026
Pages: 95
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.43 Depth: 9.51
Language: English

Sustainable development is now considered one of the major narratives shaping society's future. At the same time, it is proving to be an area of conflict where expectations, morals, politics, and ideas of scientific evidence collide. This book shows why current discourses on sustainability are reaching their limits. But it also shows how a new, openly conceived approach to sustainable development can emerge. Based on Richard Rorty's neopragmatism and Ralf Dahrendorf's concept of life chances, Olaf Kühne, Karsten Berr, and Irina Silina develop an innovative perspective: sustainable development is not understood as a teleologically defined goal but as a contingent, dialogical process that must be constantly reshaped, in which people generate life chances. The focus is on questions such as how people create meaning, how conflicts can become productive, and how individual freedom can be linked to collective responsibility. The book combines theoretical foundations, from vocabulary analyses to various forms of criticism of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a comprehensive redescription of sustainable development. Following the guiding principle of liberal ironist Richard Rorty, an approach is developed that understands freedom from humiliation, compassion, processes of understanding, and the expansion of the we as prerequisites for a resonant culture of sustainability.

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