Toward a critical theory of nature: capital, ecology, and dialectics
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Beteilige Person: Cassegård, Carl (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2022
Schriftenreihe:Critical theory and the critique of society series
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Abstract:"This book offers a bold new theoretical understanding of the current ecological crisis via the Frankfurt School. Focusing on key notions of dialectics, natural history, and materialism, a critical theory of nature is outlined in favor of a more traditional Marxist theory of nature, albeit one which still builds on Marxist concepts to confirm humanity's centrality in manufacturing environmental misery. Pre-eminent thinkers including Georg Lukács, Ernst Bloch, and Theodor Adorno are highlighted for their potential to diagnose the interpenetration of capitalism and nature in a way that neither absolutizes nor obliterates the boundary between the social and natural"--
Umfang:viii, 245 Seiten 25 cm
ISBN:9781350213999