Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology, and Dialectics (Critical Theory and the Critique of Society)

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--

• | Author: Carl Cassegã¥Rd, Chris O’Kane
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: February 11, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1350159506
• | ISBN-13: 9781350159501