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This is often the second one quantity of papers within the topical quarter of environmental administration. bobbing up from paintings performed via the overseas Centre for the surroundings on the collage of tub, the papers tackle inter-disciplinary environmental subject matters fairly from a company and administration standpoint.

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Individuality, individual identity, subjectivity as the possession of individual rights could most easily and effectively be experienced, expressed and acknowledged in form of the possession of material goods. The universal right to selfdevelopment and self-expression materialized most visibly as the universal right to (demand for) material consumption. Rapid economic growth during the first post-war decades provided the basis for this pattern of identity formation to take root. Autonomous self-development, selfrealization, adopted the primary meaning of ever increasing product choice, of free consumer decision.

The particular characteristic of this situation is that alternatives to the established system are not only no longer available, but that – because of the conceptual redefinitions – there is actually no demand for such alternatives. More than that: the colonization of alternative systems by the economic system, the universalization of the economic principle, is so complete that alternatives are actually no longer conceivable. After the redefinition of the constitutive elements of the project of modernity, there are no conceptual tools available which would allow even to think the alternative.

As individuals, human beings are free and autonomous only to the extent that their restricted individual rationality participates in absolute reason. However, empirically individual rationality is distorted by all kinds of natural instincts and desires and thus fairly remote from absolute reason. This implies rather narrow limits for any individual’s claim to inclusion into the realm of freedom and rationality. 26 Inclusionality–Exclusionality The subject of genuine autonomy is, if anything, the human species as a whole, or to use Kant’s term, the transcendental subject.

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