István Mészáros’ contributions to understanding of the metabolic rift: initial report for critical Environmental Education

Raphael Alves Feitosa
Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, Brazil
Viviane Alves de Oliveira Feitosa
Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) Fortaleza, Brazil
Natasha Alves Correia Lima
Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) Fortaleza, Brazil
Maria Cleide da Silva Barroso
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará (IFCE), Fortaleza, Brazil
Citation information
URL: http://www.jceps.com/archives/6398
Authors: Raphael Alves Feitosa,Viviane Alves de Oliveira Feitosa, Natasha Alves Correia Lima & Maria Cleide da Silva Barroso
Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
Volume 17, Number 2
ISSN 1740-2743

Abstract
This work focuses on an analysis of the contributions of István Mészáros' bibliographic works to the understanding of the metabolic rift between humankind and nature and their connections with Critical Environmental Education. With this report, the research seeks for intellectual elements that can contribute to a reasonable critique of the educational field. Starting from a methodological approach, the most appropriate method for the bibliographic analysis that the present article treats is the materialistic dialectic itself. The document then gives comments on Mészáros' principal works on the unsustainability of the production system of capital in all its forms. In his analysis of the environmental problem the planet faces today, the philosopher points out that the intrinsic need for expansion of the system, relationship between conflict and war to the reproduction of capitalism, segregation of labor and capital, make the system unsustainable. Hence, Mészáros proposes a type of education that goes beyond capital as a philosophical proposal for the area under analysis.

Keywords: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Socialism, Dialectical Materialism.


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