Societal Relations to Nature Outline of a Critical Theory in the ecological crisis

Almost a hundred years ago – in 1905, to be exact – the young physicist Albert Einstein published an essay entitled “Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper” in the Annalen der Physik, thereby founding the theory of relativity – and a new conception of space and time. In the very same year he proposed the hypothesis of the wave-particle, the dualistic nature of light, which led, 20 years later, to quantum theory. With these two moves Einstein opened the way for a scientific revolution, one that led to a radical change in the classical understanding of scientific objectivity and causal explanation within physics.