Can we overcome the anthropocentrism bias in sustainability discourse?

Abstract

Based on a turn to the rational human subject in Descartes, Kant and Feuerbach, this article critically examines four efforts at shaping sustainability discourse: the definition of sustainability in our common future; stewardship in Christian theology; forms of partisan justice; and GDP as measure of economic growth. These efforts made certain advances, but because they share the underlying anthropocentric bias of Western philosophy, they fail to step out of the current sustainability paradigm. The article closes with two suggestions of how to decentre the human subject and build a network-view of all species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]