Difference and Common Philosophy: Contributions to a Feminist Cosmopolitics for the Anthropocene

https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n58.09

Verónica Araiza Díaz
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Abstract

This article inquires into the crisis of thinking led by the environmental emergency (materialized in the notion of Anthropocene) in its environmental, social, and mental dimensions. We advance the notion of common philosophy to denote the kind of thinking enabling us to take on the current conjuncture, in the process of becoming responsible human beings, committed to a feminist cosmopolitics (a situated, careful, and more-than-human politics). This proposal is grounded on the post-structuralist notion of difference, viewed as a condition and an operation, as the fabric of our being-making-thinking. Our main thesis lies in that difference is the element that allows us to move beyond abstractions or generalizations that hinder our understanding of the crisis as a shared problem, which concerns us, yet it affects us all differently. Thus, our response to it cannot be the same.

Keywords: Anthropocene, crisis of thought, philosophy, difference, cosmopolitics, ecofeminism.