The Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences draws attention to the published interview (We live in the oligarchocene. We need to radically rethink how we see ourselves and the world) with the director of the institute, doc. Richard Stahel.
“The state of the environment, but especially the increasingly frequent climate extremes, but also the dwindling of resources, such as land suitable for growing food or drinking water, makes the relationship between society and the environment a central question of political theory,” says Richard Stahel.
Richard Stahel is a philosopher. He currently works as the director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, where he is also the head of the Department of Environmental Philosophy. He specializes in environmental, political and human rights philosophy. His research focuses on the causes of the crisis of global industrial civilization and the philosophical, social and political consequences of climate change and the mass extinction of biological species. He pays special attention to the philosophical aspects of the concepts of the Anthropocene, ecological civilization and environmental democracy. He is the editor, author or co-author of monographs such as Man, Freedom, Ownership (2015); Environmental Devastation and Social Destruction (2016); The Concept of Crisis in Environmental Thinking (2019); Current Challenges of Environmental Philosophy (2023) and Introduction to Environmental Political Philosophy (2023). In 2024, he was awarded the Slovak Academy of Sciences Prize for the results of scientific research published in 2023.
The interview was published by Kapital and is available here: https://kapital-noviny.sk/richard-stahel-rozhovor/
The director of the institute was interviewed by a political scientist and political philosopher, our researcher Peter Daubner.
The text was created with the support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Representation in the Slovak Republic.
