Marx's ecology : materialism and nature

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Marx's ecology : materialism and nature

John Bellamy Foster

Monthly Review Press, c2000

  • : cloth
  • : paper

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-300) and index

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Volume

: cloth ISBN 9781583670118

Description

By reconstructing a materialist conception of nature and society, this book challenges the spiritualism prevalent in the modern Green movement, pointing toward a method that offers more lasting sustainable solutions to the ecological crisis. Marx's neglected writings on agriculture, soil ecology, philosophical naturalism and evolutionary theory are outlined.

Table of Contents

  • The materialist conception of nature
  • the really earthly question
  • parsonian naturalism
  • the materialist conception of history
  • the metabolism of nature and society
  • coevolution and sustainability.
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: paper ISBN 9781583670125

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Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This 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.

Table of Contents

  • The materialist conception of nature
  • the really earthly question
  • parsonian naturalism
  • the materialist conception of history
  • the metabolism of natue and society
  • coevolution and sustainability.

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