O discurso político-ideológico do “desenvolvimento sustentável”: uma crítica à luz da epistemologia da linguagem e da teoria discursiva de Michel Foucault

Abstract

The article intends to analyze the expression “sustainable development”, from the discourse theory of Michel Foucault in his work “ The order of the Discourse”, viewing a criticism to its message and, consequently, to its ideological-political content. In this context, the epistemic transition, experienced by language philosophy, from Semiology to the Order of the Discourse, is presented as a path for the advance of the thoughts aroused by the study, specially, in function of the articulation of concepts such as “contextual meaning!, coming from epistemology, with fundaments of Foucault’s discourse theory. The elucidation of the procedures of exclusion of the “word interdiction” and of the “will of truth”, exemplified, allows to ascertain relations of power intrinsic to the language which contribute to the understanding that the expression “sustainable development” serves to the maintenance of the ideas of survival of the global capitalist order, establishing a continuum and permanent dialogue with reality through which symbolizes and feeds, social and institutionally, the subordinations of the environmental protection to the economic development