For a Dialectics of Nature and Need

Unity, Separation, and Alienation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3834643
AutoresMizhar Mikati (York University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen31
Número1
Páginas34-51
Fecha de publicación2020-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCapitalism Nature Socialism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1045-5752 • E-ISSN: 1548-3290
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10455752.2018.1542537
OpenAlexW2899854313
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas45

This paper will argue for the pairing of the concept of need with dialectical and materialist conceptions of the nature-society relationship. A dialectical and materialist reading of the nature-society relation, in combination with a discussion of need, will allow for a conceptualization that sees the driver of real separation under capital accumulation. In doing so, this paper will make two main claims: first, that conceptions of unity and separation arising from dialectical thought are essential to an ecological analysis that sees both the universal and particular nature-society relationship; and second, that a recognition of “need” is important for materialist thought. Indeed, the necessity of labour contains within it an important fact of “need.” Through both a recognition of separation and unity in the nature-society relation, and the pairing of labour and need, we are able to read dialectical thought and materialism as powerful conceptual strategies in order to understand general and alienated forms of the nature-society relation

Alienation · Conceptualization · Dialectic · Dialectical materialism · Economics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Materialism · Order (exchange · Political science · Reading (process · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Water Governance and Infrastructure