Towards a Critical Theory of Nature
Author | : Carl Cassegård |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2020 |
ISBN-10 | : 1350176281 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781350176287 |
Rating | : 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "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"--