Towards a critical theory of nature [electronic resource] : capital, ecology, and dialectics / Carl Cassegård
- Author
- Cassegård, Carl
- Published
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
- Physical Description
- pages cm.
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- Summary
- "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"--
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- ISBN
- 9781350159501 (hbk)
9781350213999 (pbk)
9781350176263 (epdf)
9781350176270 (ebook) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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