Michael Foucault argued that 'the self' is socially constructed. So far as that is true, inhabitants of consumer societies have probably all internalized the social and institutional celebration of consumption, to varying extents, and this will have shaped our identities and worldviews, often in...

The paper examines the ethical dimension of sustainability. I start with an analysis of the modern concept of sustainability and demonstrate its inherent ethical meaning. This ethical meaning is connected to the specific relational meaning of the concept, which refers to fundamental...