title: Towards the possibility of transforming consumer culture into ecological civilization
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metadata.value: Sťahel, Richard
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metadata.value: Tomaščíková, Slávka
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metadata.value: 2022-03-10T09:58:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-03-10T09:58:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.value: Sťahel R., Tomaščíková S. Towards the possibility of transforming consumer culture into ecological civilization. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 4, pp. 694–705.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2021.409
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35597
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metadata.value: The article analyzes the prospects of ecological civilisation in a media-driven society at the
  end of the 20th century and the first two decades of the 21st century. The self-identity of the
  individual is now formed within the culture-ideology of consumerism, which is defined by
  the excessive production and consumption of all kinds of goods and services. Public policies
  of this period are shaped by neoliberal principles emphasizing the individuals’ benefit
  and their profit. The result of such a culture is an intensification of environmental and social
  destruction at the planetary level. Almost unlimited support for the growth of production
  and consumption faces the limits of the planetary system, its capacity to provide resources
  for continued growth, and to absorb pollution. Consequently, humanity faces the instability
  and unpredictability of the Anthropocene. From a philosophical point of view, the global
  environmental crisis opens up the problem of justifying regulations restricting the freedom
  of unlimited production and consumption. The concept of ecological culture or ecological
  civilization which is developing in contemporary China can be considered as the opposite
  of the culture-ideology of consumerism. It emerged in China in the mid-1980s as a response
  to the Soviet-formulated model of ‘green culture.’ This concept integrates several ‘Western’
  concepts of sustainable development, eco-Marxism, ecological democracy, but it also incorporates
  several traditional Chinese philosophical concepts and thus can be perceived as part of
  the renaissance of traditional Chinese ways of thinking and interpreting the world. The question
  is whether the concept of ecological civilization is a real alternative to consumer culture.
  If the answer to this question is affirmative, then the possibilities of transforming the culture
  of consumption into an ecological civilization analysed in the article should be considered as
  trends of sustainable development.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research presented in this work is partially supported by VEGA project 2/0072/21 Tasks of
  Political Philosophy in the Context of Anthropocene, VEGA project 1/0447/20 The Global and the
  Local in Postmillennial Anglophone Literatures, Cultures and Media both granted by the Ministry of
  Education, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, and by Samara National Research University. Slávka
  Tomaščíková is a research collaborator in the University of the Balearic Islands’ Research Group in British
  and Comparative Cultural Studies (BRICCS).
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: media-driven society
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: culture-ideology of consumerism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: environmental devastation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social destruction
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Anthropocene
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ecological civilization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Towards the possibility of transforming consumer culture into ecological civilization
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metadata.value: Article
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