Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature - Rilegato

Foster, John Bellamy

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ISBN 10: 1583670114 ISBN 13: 9781583670118

Casa editrice: Monthly Review Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis.

Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines Marx's neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. He shows that Marx, known as a powerful critic of capitalist society, was also deeply concerned with the changing human relationship to nature.

Marx's Ecology covers many other thinkers, including Epicurus, Charles Darwin, Thomas Malthus, Ludwig Feuerbach, P. J. Proudhon, and William Paley.

By reconstructing a materialist conception of nature and society, Marx's Ecology challenges the spiritualism prevalent in the modern Green movement, pointing toward a method that offers more lasting and sustainable solutions to the ecological crisis.

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• Editore: Monthly Review Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1583670114
• ISBN 13: 9781583670118
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 310
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