Toward a Critical Theory of Nature
Subtitle: Capital, Ecology, and Dialectics
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781350159501
Subjects: Environmental sciences
Description: "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"--