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Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature
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Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature
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by John Bellamy Foster
Sales Rank : 225994
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Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Monthly Review Press March 1, 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1583670122
ISBN-13: 978-1583670125
Product Dimensions:
9 x 3.7 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
Product Description
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.
About The Author
John Bellamy Foster teaches at the University of Oregon, is co-editor of Organization & Environment, and is author of The Vulnerable Planet (1994).
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