Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.3390/su152416802
The Contributions of Philosophy and the Social Sciences to Landscape Conflict Research—A Critical Comparison
Publication Type
Article
Subjects
Epistemology
Social science
Sociology
Criticism
Philosophy of science
Forgetting
Landscape design
Environmental ethics
Political science
Philosophy
Environmental resource management
Date Issued
2023
Abstract
In recent years, the study of ‘landscape’ has gained importance in both the public and in the sciences. In philosophy and the social sciences, different traditions for dealing with ‘landscape’ have developed—not least based on a common reference point of Georg Simmel’s “Philosophy of Landscape” published in 1913. In this paper, these traditions are examined with regard to their suitability for contributing to the analysis and regulation of landscape conflicts and for providing answers to the landscape-related challenges of the present—both in terms of science and society—exemplified by the challenges of the energy transition. The central points of criticism are, besides an insufficient amount of conceptual work and a ‘forgetting of the individual’ of philosophy and the social sciences, the reduction of the concept of landscape to the concept of nature in philosophical landscape research.
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