Freedom in the Anthropocene [electronic resource] : Twentieth-Century Helplessness in the Face of Climate Change /
Stoner, A.author.
Melathopoulos, A.author.
Freedom in the Anthropocene illuminates the Anthropocene from the perspective of critical theory. The authors contextualize our current ecological predicament by focusing on the issues of history and freedom and how they relate to our present inability to render environmental threats and degradation recognizable and surmountable.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Smog, Haze, Sulfur: The Elusive Clarity of the Anthropocene; 1 The Great London Smog (1952); 2 Southeastern Asian Haze (2013); 3 Sulfur and the stratosphere (1815 and the future); Introduction: What Is the Meaning of Freedom in the Anthropocene?; 1 Georg Lukács (1885-1971) and the Critique of Reification: On the Dialectical Genesis of the Great Acceleration; 1 Marxism in crisis: social democracy on the eve of the Great Acceleration; 2 Critique of reification
3 Reification and the dialectical genesis of the Great Acceleration2 Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) and the Critique of Identity Thinking: The Great Acceleration as Historical Sedimentation; 1 Dialectics as critique; 1.1 Critique of identity thinking; 1.2 Negative philosophy of history; 2 Human-ecological transformation and contemporary ecological subjectivity; 2.1 "Administered" society; 2.2 Toward a critique of contemporary environmentalism; 3 Moishe Postone (1942-) and the Critique of Traditional Marxism: Helplessness and the Present Moment of the Great Acceleration
1 Critique of traditional Marxism2 Nature of the contradiction: value and material wealth; 3 Socioecological domination and the production of value; 4 Value as the continual necessity of the present; 5 Helplessness; Conclusion; 1 Contemporary environmental politics; 2 The necessity of critical theory; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Freedom in the Anthropocene illuminates the Anthropocene from the perspective of critical theory. The authors contextualize our current ecological predicament by focusing on the issues of history and freedom and how they relate to our present inability to render environmental threats and degradation recognizable and surmountable.
Environmental sociology.
Anthropology.
Physical geography.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Climate change.
Environmental Sociology.
Anthropology.
Physical Geography.
Social Theory.
Climate Change.
Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.