La investigación se focaliza en el análisis de la crisis ambiental considerada como un fenómeno complejo de evolución incierta producto de un proceso socio histórico, cuyos orígenes se remontan a los albores del proyecto moderno y deben rastrearse en un cúmulo de circunstancias que expresan las contradicciones de un modelo socioeconómico identificado con el crecimiento sostenido de la producción y las magnitudes económicas. Partiendo de esta base, se propone abordar la relación entre saber sociológico y crisis ambiental, a partir de las contribuciones de la teoría crítica a la compresión de las causas profundas de la crisis ambiental y de sus elementos constitutivos. Para lo cual se propone profundizar en algunas categorías desarrolladas por la corriente social crítica, las cuales si bien no se refieren en forma directa a la problemática ambiental, se vislumbran como campos fértiles para comprender los procesos sociales generadores de la crisis ambiental así como las alternativas que han de adoptarse para su resolución, teniendo en cuenta los mecanismos que ejerce el sistema para neutralizar los cambios que implica la conformación de una racionalidad alternativa. Acorde con ello, la primera parte del trabajo se centra en el abordaje de la relación sociedad naturaleza en el marco de tres grandes procesos sociales identificados como cosmológico, teocéntrico y antropocéntrico, haciendo especial hincapié en la correlación que en cada una de las etapas consideradas se establece entre racionalidad dominante, producción de conocimiento y conceptualización de naturaleza. El segundo capítulo profundiza en los efectos de la racionalidad instrumental sobre la ruptura del proyecto moderno y su incidencia sobre la emergencia de la crisis ambiental, a partir de la posición adoptada por Heidegger y por los referentes de la Escuela de Frankfurt. Posteriormente el análisis se estructura en torno a las dimensiones críticas de la modernidad avanzada, considerada como contexto situacional de desarrollo y profundización de la crisis ambiental, teniendo en cuenta los aportes teóricos desarrollados por Zygmunt Bauman e Immanuel Wallerstein.Al finalizar se presentan las conclusiones generales de la tesis y las posibles líneas de investigación que se abren a partir del trabajo desarrollado. / This investigation focuses on the analysis of the environmental crisis, considering it as a complex phenomenon whose evolution is uncertain, as it is the outcome of a socio-historical process that goes back to the beginning of modernity and that must be traced to the circumstances that express the contradictions of a socio-economic model identified with the sustained growth of production and the economy. From this perspective, I approach the relationship between sociological knowledge and environmental crisis by looking at the contributions of critical theory to the understanding of the deep causes of both the environmental crisis and its constitutive elements. I seek to analyse some categories developed by critical social studies. Even though they do not refer directly to the environmental problematics, it is possible to find in them both a fertile field from which to understand the social situations generated by the environmental crisis and alternative policies that ought to be adopted for its resolution, considering at the same time the mechanisms that the system sets in place to neutralize the changes implied by the formation of an alternative rationality.Accordingly, the first part of this work centres on the study of the relationship between society and nature across three large social processes identified as cosmology, theocentrism and anthropocentrism, emphasizing the correlation, in each of the stages considered, between dominant rationality, knowledge production, and conceptualization of nature.The second chapter deals with the effects of instrumental rationality on the breakdown of the project of modernity and its impact upon the emergency of the environmental crisis. Here I consider the position adopted by Heidegger and by the best known figures of the Frankfurt School.Later, I structure the analysis around the critical dimensions of advanced modernity, considering it as the situational context for the development and deepening of the environmental crisis. Here I take into account the theoretical contributions developed by Zygmunt Bauman and Immanuel Wallerstein.Finally, I present the general conclusions of my thesis and the possible lines of research that open up from my work.

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