Abstract:
This article aims to analyze the discourse of modern science as a possible condition for the emergence of the environmental crisis. Thus, it analyzesNovum organum, by Francis Bacon, and Discourse on the method, by René Descartes. Elements that problematize the forever return of our modern heritage are sought, based on Foucauldian studies about the author function and the updating of current speech contemporary discourse. Visibility is given to three discursive reactivations: the current manner of facing science; the dual position of individuals today, and the objectification of nature. Provocatively looking into the ongoing environmental crisis, this article seeks to induce thinking about teachers’ and field researchers’ responsibilities by addressing the historical, epistemological and philosophical foundations of environmental education. By examining the crisis, with help of the foundations of environmental education, we may be able to tension our modern heritages not to deny them, but instead to intensify in ourselves the desire to resist the present.
Keywords:
Environmental education; Nature; Philosophy of science; Environmental crisis; Michel Foucault