Towards a critical theory of nature : capital, ecology, and dialectics /
"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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ;
Bloomsbury Academic,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Critical theory and the critique of society series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350176287 1350176281 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350176287 |